Athrongeus

Family: rebels · Role: self-proclaimed king · First appears: Book II, Chapter 4

Life events

Athrongeus proclaimed himself king and led a sustained armed revolt.(Book II, Chapter 4)
- “he did himself act like a king, and meddled only with the more important affairs; and at this time he put a diadem about his head, and continued after that to overrun the country for no little time with his brethren”
Athrongeus's forces killed Arius and forty Roman soldiers.(Book II, Chapter 4 · 📍 Emmaus)
- With: Arius
- “his men therefore shot their arrows and darts, and thereby slew their centurion Arius, and forty of the stoutest of his men”

enemies with Arius “He once ventured to encompass a whole troop of Romans at Emmaus, who were carrying corn and weapons to their legion; his men therefore shot their arrows and darts, and thereby slew their centurion Arius, and forty of the stoutest of his men, while the rest of them, who were in danger of the same fate, upon the coming of Gratus, with those of Sebaste, to their assistance, escaped.”
enemies with Gratus “He once ventured to encompass a whole troop of Romans at Emmaus, who were carrying corn and weapons to their legion; his men therefore shot their arrows and darts, and thereby slew their centurion Arius, and forty of the stoutest of his men, while the rest of them, who were in danger of the same fate, upon the coming of Gratus, with those of Sebaste, to their assistance, escaped.”

Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.