Archelaus (son of Magadatus)

Also known as: Archelaus · Family: Jewish · Role: deserter · First appears: Book VI, Chapter 4

In Book VI, Chapter 4, Archelaus, son of Magadatus, deserted the Jews alongside Ananus and went to Titus, hoping to be forgiven because they had left the Jews while they were still conquerors. Titus dismissed them because “the security he had promised deserters overcame his resentments,” but he did not grant them the same privileges as other deserters.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ananus and Archelaus desert to Titus, who dismisses them without the privileges granted to other deserters.(Book VI, Chapter 4)
  • With: Ananus Titus
  • “However, the security he had promised deserters overcame his resentments, and he dismissed them accordingly, though he did not give them the same privileges that he had afforded to others.”

Book VI, Chapter 4

• parent: Magadatus (Magadatus is Archelaus's father.) “In the mean time, there deserted to him Ananus, who came from Emmaus, the most bloody of all Simon's guards, and Archelaus, the son of Magadatus, they hoping to be still forgiven, because they left the Jews at a time when they were the conquerors.”
• with Titus (Archelaus deserted to Titus.) “In the mean time, there deserted to him Ananus, who came from Emmaus, the most bloody of all Simon's guards, and Archelaus, the son of Magadatus, they hoping to be still forgiven, because they left the Jews at a time when they were the conquerors.”
• with Titus (Titus dismissed Archelaus after accepting his desertion.) “However, the security he had promised deserters overcame his resentments, and he dismissed them accordingly, though he did not give them the same privileges that he had afforded to others.”

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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.