Intaphrenes (Old Persian Vindafranâ): Persian courtier and general. Intaphrenes was one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius I the Great become king (September 522 BCE).
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In the war between the Jews and the Romans of 66-70, the Jewish general Joseph son of Matthias defended Galilee against the Roman legions. After he had been defeated, he defected to his enemies, and advised the Roman general Vespasian.…
Most scholars agree that the following story, told by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in his Jewish antiquities 11.317-345, is not true. One argument is that Alexander is shown a book that was not yet written. Another argument is that…
Josephus' Against the Greeks: polemic treatise against the anti-Semitic slander of Apion of Alexandria.
Epaphroditus of Chaeronea
The two volumes of Josephus'…
Josephus' Jewish War: main source about the Jewish revolt against the Romans (66-70), the destruction of Jerusalem (70), and the siege of Masada (74).
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Lacus Curtius ("lake of Curtius"): small pool on the Roman Forum, venerated by the Romans, even when they did no longer remember why it was a holy place.
For the website LacusCurtius, go here.
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