Local elites in West Roman Greece: The evidence from Thesprotia and Preveza

The coastal part of Epirus in north-western Greece, an area defined today by the prefectures of Thesprotia in the north and Preveza in the south, was caught very early on (due to its key geo-strategic position on the western coast of the Greek peninsula) in the throes of political and military developments that shook the Hellenistic world from the late 3rd century BC and led to the gradual consolidation of Roman rule in Greece.1