Antiquities of the Jews

Josephus, Flavius · c. 93–94 CE primary

passage 976 of 1072 · BOOK I. Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand Eight Hundred And > CHAPTER 6. Of The Navigation Of King Agrippa To Rome, To Tiberius Cæsar; (10/10)

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in brief

Herodias, sister of Agrippa, envies his higher royal status and pressures her husband Herod the tetrarch to go to Rome for equal honors; she urges spending money and seeking a kingdom.

He also gave him the tetrarchy of Lysanias, 27 and changed his iron chain for a golden one of equal weight. He also sent Marullus to be procurator of Judea.

Now, in the second year of the reign of Caius Cæsar, Agrippa desired leave to be given him to sail home, and settle the affairs of his government; and he promised to return again, when he had put the rest in order, as it ought to be put. So, upon the emperor's permission, he came into his own country, and appeared to them all unexpectedly as asking, and thereby demonstrated to the men that saw him the power of fortune, when they compared his former poverty with his present happy affluence; so some called him a happy man, and others could not well believe that things were so much changed with him for the better.

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topics: ambition and the love of glory · rank, class, and social order

Antiquities of the Jews · Josephus, Flavius · 93–94