Smyrna did not lack for entertainment, by which I mean plays, but also Olympic style games, to which the Romans added gladiatorial combat, or bloodsport. 
In an honor and shame culture, while entertainment was important and mostly for the leisure class (i.e. mostly the rich who had time for it), honor was also established by honorific inscriptions, which kept these guys in work….
But the rich also wanted glass objects, and decorative perfume vials too.
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