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Four Notes On The Herods*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. Braund
D. Braund
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University of Exeter
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In JRS (1968), Shelagh Jameson discussed the relative chronology of the campaigns of Aelius Gallus and C. Petronius: her discussion has rightly met with broad acceptance. She argued that Petronius began his first Ethiopian campaign in or by autumn 25 B.c., while Gallus began his Arabian campaign in or by August 26 B.C. and ended it in October or November 25 B.c.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 239 - 242
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1983

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1 Jameson, S., ‘The chronology of the campaigns of Aelius Gallus and C. Petronius’, JRS 58 (1968), 71–84Google Scholar. Brunt, P. A., for one, remains unconvinced that Petronius was in office before 24 B.C.: ‘The administration of Roman Egypt’, JRS 65 (1975), 142Google Scholar. The Arabian side of Gallus' campaign is explored at some length by Wissmann, H. von, ‘Die Geschichte des Säbaerreichs und der Feldzug des Aelius Gallus’, ANRW II9, 1 (1976), 308–544Google Scholar.

2 Jameson, pp. 77–8, quoted from p. 78 and followed ia. by Smallwood, E. M., The Jews Under Roman Rule (Leiden, 1976), p. 86 n. 86Google Scholar.

3 Strabo 16 p. 780: we should not press the fact that Strabo describes them as Jews, for, being Herod's ex-bodyguards, they were evidently in a sense from Judaea. Some of them were probably Arabs: note Herod's Arab bodyguard at Jos.BJ 1. 576–7 and AJ 17. 55–7. On the early stages of Gallus' preparations, see now Lewis, N., ‘P. Oxy. 2820: Whose preparations?’, GRBS 16 (1976), 295–303Google Scholar.

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5 Jos. AJ 15. 3–4, 370.

6 Willrich, H., Das Haus des Herodes (1929), p. 117Google Scholar, rejected explicitly by Hoehner and ignored by the rest: locc. citt.

7 The classic statement ofthis view is Feldman, L. H.,‘Asinius Pollio and his Jewish interests’, TAPA 84 (1953), 73–80Google Scholar. It is now used as a basis for further hypothesis: see, for example, Coleman, R. (ed.), Vergil: Eclogues (1977), p. 153Google Scholar. It need hardly be said that Eel. 4 has no bearing on the present argument.

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9 André, J., La Vie et L'Oeuvre d' Asinius Pollion (1949)Google Scholar, who was criticized by Feldman, p. 73 for his ‘omission’. Feldman does all one could to construct links between Pollio and those sympathetic to and`/r interested in Judaism, but with these twin pillars removed his case simply does not stand up.

10 The case is fully presented by Crouzel, H., ‘Le Lieu d'Exil d'Hérode Antipas et d'Hérodiade selon Flavius Josephe’, in Studia Patristica Vol. 10. Papers presented to the Fifth International Conference on Patristic Studies: Oxford, 1967 (ed. Cross, F. L., 1970), pp. 275–80Google Scholar. Cf. Schuüer, p. 352 n. 41, more circumspect than most.

11 So Hoehner p. 262 n.l.

12 Ravenna: Suet.Tib. 20; Ov.Ex Ponto, 2. 1. 45–8; Tac.Ann. 1. 58. 9; 2. 63. Forum Julii: Tac.Ann. 2. 63. 6. Alexandria: Tac.Ann. 2. 67. 5. Antioch: Tac.Ann. 2. 4. 4; 58. Pompeiopolis: Tac.Ann. 2. 58. 3. Vienne: see next note.

13 Jos.Bj 2. Ill; Strabo 16 p. 765.

14 Schurer, p. 352 n.41.

15 Alternatively, one might press the fact that Bj 2. 183 says, strictly, that Antipas died in Spain: it might be argued that he was at some point transferred from his first place of exile at Lyons to Spain, where he later died. If this is right, Josephus' formulation at Bj 2. 183 is most misleading

16 PIR2 i. 130.

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19 IGLS 2759 = ILS 8957.

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