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This perhaps helps to explain why, in comparison with other urban centres in the ancient Near East, Phoenician cities were relatively small in size, ranging from an average of 2–6 hectares (5–15 acres) for smaller cities (such as Berytus and Sarepta) to 40-plus hectares (100-plus acres) for the largest cities (Arwad and Sidon).

Byc.350, the number of Phoenician expatriates living in Athens had increased so much that Xenophon could plausibly represent them as a distinct multilingual and acculturated community (Ways and Means, 2.3–6). A situation which is also attested in the Athenian decrees honouring a group of Sidonian merchants in 367 (IG II–III ² 141) and a group of Kition merchants in 333 (IG II–III ² 337). This community included simple brokers like Pythodo̅ros who was active in Athens in around 394 (Isocrates, 17.4), great money-lenders such as Therodo̅ros (Demosthenes, 34.6), and renowned personalities like Zeno of Kition who founded the Stoic school of philosophy in 301 (Diogenes Laertius, Xeno, 16; 38).