Pappus
Family: Antigonus's party · Role: general · First appears: Book I, Chapter 17
In Book I, Chapter 17, Antigonus sent Pappus, one of his companions, with an army against Samaria, where he opposed Machaerus. Pappus and his party marched out against Herod, but Herod defeated his forces and inflicted a great slaughter. On the next day, Herod had Pappus beheaded and sent his head to Pheroras, as punishment for his having slain Joseph; Pappus had been “the general for Antigonus.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Herod defeated Pappus's forces and inflicted a devastating slaughter.(Book I, Chapter 17)
- With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
- “so that a great slaughter was made, while some were forced back into that village whence they came out;”
- Herod had Pappus beheaded and sent his head to Pheroras.(Book I, Chapter 17)
- With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
- “on the next day Herod had Pappus's head cut off, who was the general for Antigonus, and was slain in the battle, and sent it to his brother Pheroras”
Book I, Chapter 17
- with Antigonus (son of Aristobulus) (Pappus was Antigonus's companion and general.) “he sent Pappus, one of his companions, with an army against Samaria”
- enemies with Machaerus “he sent Pappus, one of his companions, with an army against Samaria, whose fortune it was to oppose Machaerus”
- enemies with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Pappus commanded forces fighting Herod.) “As for Pappus and his party, they were not terrified either at their number or at their zeal, but marched out with great alacrity to fight them”
- with Joseph (unresolved ch017) (Pappus is identified as the man who slew Joseph.) “Pappus's head cut off, who was the general for Antigonus, and was slain in the battle, and sent it to his brother Pheroras, by way of punishment for their slain brother; for he was the man that slew Joseph”
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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.