Athenio

Family: Cleopatra's forces · Role: general · First appears: Book I, Chapter 19

Life events

• Athenio's forces helped rout Herod's army, and the Arabians captured its camp at Ormiza.(Book I, Chapter 19 · 📍 Kanatha)
  • With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
  • “while Athenio, who was one of Cleopatra's generals, and always an antagonist to Herod, sent out of Kanatha the men of that country against him; for, upon this fresh onset, the Arabians took courage, and returned back, and both joined their numerous forces about stony places, that were hard to be gone over, and there put Herod's men to the rout, and made a great slaughter of them; but those that escaped out of the battle fled to Ormiza, where the Arabians surrounded their camp, and took it, with all the men in it.”

Book I, Chapter 19

• enemies with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Athenio actively opposed Herod.) “Athenio, who was one of Cleopatra's generals, and always an antagonist to Herod, sent out of Kanatha the men of that country against him”
• employer: Cleopatra (Athenio served as one of Cleopatra's generals.) “Athenio, who was one of Cleopatra's generals”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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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.