Year
2024
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Language
English
Pages
23
ISBN
978-1-61249-904-8
Last Update
28-Oct-2024
Keywords
Jewish Studies ; Urban Studies ; History
Writing in the early second century CE, the Roman historian Tacitus sets pen to parchment to chronicle the history of the empire in the second half of the first century CE. Along the way he recounts the events of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome (66–73 CE). Book five of his Histories begins at the point where the Roman general and later emperor Titus has pitched his camp outside the walls of Jerusalem. In order that his readers might gain a better appreciation of the people about to be conquered, Tacitus embarks upon a lengthy digression in which he...
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