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Dio Cassius
ca. 160–ca. 230
Also known as Cassius Dio, this Greek historian was born in Nicaea between 155 and 164 CE and died sometime after 229 CE. His father was a Roman senator, and Dio spent much of his life as a Roman government official. Although he wrote many shorter works, he is best known for Historia Romana, an eighty-volume work composed in Greek that details ancient Roman history. This valuable chronicle includes details of the siege of Jerusalem under the Flavian dynasty that go unmentioned by Josephus and others.
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Historical Summary of the Revolt
At Jerusalem he founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the temple of the god he raised a new temple to Jupiter. This…
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Berenice at the Height of her Power
Berenice was at the very height of her power and consequently came to Rome along with her brother Agrippa. The latter was given the rank of praetor, while she dwelt in the palace, cohabiting with…
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An Annual Tribute to Jupiter Capitolinus
Thus was Jerusalem destroyed on the very day of Saturn, the day which even now the Jews reverence most. From that time forth it was ordered that the Jews who continued to observe their ancestral…
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Jewish Rebellion in Cyrene
Trajan therefore departed thence, and a little later began to fail in health.
Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put a certain Andreas at their head, and were…
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Claudius Bans Jewish Assembly
As for the Jews, who had again increased so greatly that by reason of their multitude it would have been hard without raising a tumult to bar them from the city, he did not drive them out, but ordered…
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