Izates
Family: Adiabene · Role: king · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 9
Izates is the king of Adiabene. In Book IV, Chapter 9, Grapte is described as his relation and as the builder of a royal palace; in Book V, Chapter 4, Helena is listed in a parent relationship with him, in a passage mentioning the sepulchral caverns of the kings and a monument.
By c. 70, at Rome, Titus took Izates’s royal kinsmen into custody and led them there as hostages for their country’s fidelity to the Romans, “but still bound the king's sons and kinsmen, and led them with him to Rome, in order to make them hostages for their country's fidelity to the Romans.”
Relationship record
Life events
- c. 70 · Titus takes Izates's royal kinsmen into custody and leads them to Rome as hostages.(Book VI, Chapter 6 · 📍 Rome)
- With: Titus
- “but still bound the king's sons and kinsmen, and led them with him to Rome, in order to make them hostages for their country's fidelity to the Romans.”
Book IV, Chapter 9
- with Grapte (Grapte is identified as a relation of Izates.) “that royal palace that was built by Grapte, who was a relation of Izates, the king of Adiabene;”
Book V, Chapter 4
- child: Helena (This quote does not concern Helena and Izates; relationship supported elsewhere in the chapter.) “and passed by the sepulchral caverns of the kings, and bent again at the tower of the corner, at the monument which is called the ”
Book VI, Chapter 6
- with Titus (Titus took the sons and kinsmen of Izates hostage.) “At that time, indeed, he kept them all in custody, but still bound the king's sons and kinsmen, and led them with him to Rome, in order to make them hostages for their country's fidelity to the Romans.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.