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Philo Of Alexandria, Against Flaccus, 57

nan And the cessation of business to which they were compelled to submit was even a worse evil than the plunder to which they were exposed, as the consequence was that those who had lent money lost what they had lent, and as no one was permitted, neither farmer, nor captain of a ship, nor merchant, nor artisan, to employ himself in his usual manner, so that poverty was brought on them from two sides at once, both from rapine, as when license was thus given to plunder them they were stripped of everything in one day, and also from the circumstance of their no longer being able to earn money by their customary occupations. IX.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
2. Anon., Sibylline Oracles, 11.233-11.235 (1st cent. BCE - 5th cent. CE)
3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Decalogue, 53 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
4. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Joseph, 136, 29, 135 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
5. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 18-19, 17 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 17. But that world which consists of ideas, it were impious in any degree to attempt to describe or even to imagine: but how it was created, we shall know if we take for our guide a certain image of the things which exist among us. When any city is founded through the exceeding ambition of some king or leader who lays claim to absolute authority, and is at the same time a man of brilliant imagination, eager to display his good fortune, then it happens at times that some man coming up who, from his education, is skilful in architecture, and he, seeing the advantageous character and beauty of the situation, first of all sketches out in his own mind nearly all the parts of the city which is about to be completed--the temples, the gymnasia, the prytanea, and markets, the harbour, the docks, the streets, the arrangement of the walls, the situations of the dwelling houses, and of the public and other buildings.
6. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 1.34 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 1.34. He, therefore, who comes into that which is truly the greatest of cities, namely, this world, and who beholds all the land, both the mountain and the champaign district full of animals, and plants, and the streams of rivers, both overflowing and depending on the wintry floods, and the steady flow of the sea, and the admirable temperature of the air, and the varieties and regular revolutions of the seasons of the year; and then too the sun and moon, the rulers of day and night, and the revolutions and regular motions of all the other planets and fixed stars, and of the whole heaven; would he not naturally, or I should rather say, of necessity, conceive a notion of the Father, and creator, and governor of all this system;
7. Philo of Alexandria, Against Flaccus, 10, 103-105, 108, 11, 110, 117, 12, 120-124, 13, 135-139, 14, 141, 149, 15, 151, 158, 16, 163, 166-169, 17, 170, 173-174, 177, 18, 181, 189, 19, 190-191, 2, 20-21, 23-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-56, 58-59, 6, 60-69, 7, 70-79, 8, 80-89, 9, 90-97, 1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 1. Flaccus Avillius succeeded Sejanus in his hatred of and hostile designs against the Jewish nation. He was not, indeed, able to injure the whole people by open and direct means as he had been, inasmuch as he had less power for such a purpose, but he inflicted the most intolerable evils on all who came within his reach. Moreover, though in appearance he only attacked a portion of the nation, in point of fact he directed his aims against all whom he could find anywhere, proceeding more by art than by force; for those men who, though of tyrannical natures and dispositions, have not strength enough to accomplish their designs openly, seek to compass them by manoeuvres.
8. Philo of Alexandria, On The Embassy To Gaius, 122-124, 130, 132-139, 162-164, 166-171, 173, 250-253, 338, 121 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 121. for they began to crush our people as if they had been surrendered by the emperor for the most extreme and undeniable miseries, or as if they had been subdued in war, with their frantic and most brutal passion, forcing their way into their houses, and driving out the owners, with their wives and children, which they rendered desolate and void of inhabitants.
9. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 121-126, 133-134, 120 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
10. Propertius, Elegies, 3.11.30-3.11.58 (1st cent. BCE
11. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 32.36-32.37 (1st cent. CE 32.36.  For not only does the mighty nation, Egypt, constitute the framework of your city — or more accurately its ')" onMouseOut="nd();"appendage — but the peculiar nature of the river, when compared with all others, defies description with regard to both its marvellous habits and its usefulness; and furthermore, not only have you a monopoly of the shipping of the entire Mediterranean by reason of the beauty of your harbours, the magnitude of your fleet, and the abundance and the marketing of the products of every land, but also the outer waters that lie beyond are in your grasp, both the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, whose name was rarely heard in former days. The result is that the trade, not merely of islands, ports, a few straits and isthmuses, but of practically the whole world is yours. For Alexandria is situated, as it were, at the cross-roads of the whole world, of even the most remote nations thereof, as if it were a market serving a single city, a market which brings together into one place all manner of men, displaying them to one another and, as far as possible, making them a kindred people. 32.37.  Perhaps these words of mine are pleasing to your ears and you fancy that you are being praised by me, as you are by all the rest who are always flattering you; but I was praising water and soil and harbours and places and everything except yourselves. For where have I said that you are sensible and temperate and just? Was it not quite the opposite? For when we praise human beings, it should be for their good discipline, gentleness, concord, civic order, for heeding those who give good counsel, and for not being always in search of pleasures. But arrivals and departures of vessels, and superiority in size of population, in merchandise, and in ships, are fit subjects for praise in the case of a fair, a harbour, or a market-place, but not of a city;
12. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 14.117, 19.81, 19.292-19.296, 19.300-19.311 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 14.117. Accordingly, the Jews have places assigned them in Egypt, wherein they inhabit, besides what is peculiarly allotted to this nation at Alexandria, which is a large part of that city. There is also an ethnarch allowed them, who governs the nation, and distributes justice to them, and takes care of their contracts, and of the laws to them belonging, as if he were the ruler of a free republic. 19.81. for he is preparing to sail to Alexandria, in order to see Egypt. Is it therefore for your honor to let a man go out of your hands who is a reproach to mankind, and to permit him to go, after a pompous manner, triumphing both at land and sea? 19.292. 1. Now Claudius Caesar, by these decrees of his which were sent to Alexandria, and to all the habitable earth, made known what opinion he had of the Jews. So he soon sent Agrippa away to take his kingdom, now he was advanced to a more illustrious dignity than before, and sent letters to the presidents and procurators of the provinces that they should treat him very kindly. 19.293. Accordingly, he returned in haste, as was likely he would, now he returned in much greater prosperity than he had before. He also came to Jerusalem, and offered all the sacrifices that belonged to him, and omitted nothing which the law required; 19.294. on which account he ordained that many of the Nazarites should have their heads shorn. And for the golden chain which had been given him by Caius, of equal weight with that iron chain wherewith his royal hands had been bound, he hung it up within the limits of the temple, over the treasury, that it might be a memorial of the severe fate he had lain under, and a testimony of his change for the better; that it might be a demonstration how the greatest prosperity may have a fall, and that God sometimes raises up what is fallen down: 19.295. for this chain thus dedicated afforded a document to all men, that king Agrippa had been once bound in a chain for a small cause, but recovered his former dignity again; and a little while afterward got out of his bonds, and was advanced to be a more illustrious king than he was before. 19.296. Whence men may understand that all that partake of human nature, how great soever they are, may fall; and that those that fall may gain their former illustrious dignity again. 19.301. This procedure of theirs greatly provoked Agrippa; for it plainly tended to the dissolution of the laws of his country. So he came without delay to Publius Petronius, who was then president of Syria, and accused the people of Doris. 19.302. Nor did he less resent what was done than did Agrippa; for he judged it a piece of impiety to transgress the laws that regulate the actions of men. So he wrote the following letter to the people of Doris in an angry strain: 19.303. “Publius Petronius, the president under Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, to the magistrates of Doris, ordains as follows: 19.304. Since some of you have had the boldness, or madness rather, after the edict of Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was published, for permitting the Jews to observe the laws of their country, not to obey the same 19.305. but have acted in entire opposition thereto, as forbidding the Jews to assemble together in the synagogue, by removing Caesar’s statue, and setting it up therein, and thereby have offended not only the Jews, but the emperor himself, whose statue is more commodiously placed in his own temple than in a foreign one, where is the place of assembling together; while it is but a part of natural justice, that every one should have the power over the place belonging peculiarly to themselves, according to the determination of Caesar,— 19.306. to say nothing of my own determination, which it would be ridiculous to mention after the emperor’s edict, which gives the Jews leave to make use of their own customs, as also gives order that they enjoy equally the rights of citizens with the Greeks themselves,— 19.307. I therefore ordain that Proculus Vitellius, the centurion, bring those men to me, who, contrary to Augustus’s edict, have been so insolent as to do this thing, at which those very men, who appear to be of principal reputation among them, have an indignation also, and allege for themselves, that it was not done with their consent, but by the violence of the multitude, that they may give an account of what hath been done. 19.308. I also exhort the principal magistrates among them, unless they have a mind to have this action esteemed to be done with their consent, to inform the centurion of those that were guilty of it, and take care that no handle be hence taken for raising a sedition or quarrel among them; which those seem to me to hunt after who encourage such doings; 19.309. while both I myself, and king Agrippa, for whom I have the highest honor, have nothing more under our care, than that the nation of the Jews may have no occasion given them of getting together, under the pretense of avenging themselves, and become tumultuous. 19.311. I therefore charge you, that you do not, for the time to come, seek for any occasion of sedition or disturbance, but that every one be allowed to follow their own religious customs.”
13. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 2.53-2.55 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.53. Accordingly, God gave a remarkable attestation to his righteous procedure; for when Ptolemy Physco had the presumption to fight against Onias’s army, and had caught all the Jews that were in the city [Alexandria], with their children and wives, and exposed them naked and in bonds to his elephants, that they might be trodden upon and destroyed, and when he had made those elephants drunk for that purpose, the event proved contrary to his preparations; 2.54. for these elephants left the Jews who were exposed to them, and fell violently upon Physco’s friends, and slew a great number of them; nay, after this, Ptolemy saw a terrible ghost, which prohibited his hurting those men; 2.55. his very concubine, whom he loved so well (some call her Ithaca, and others Irene), making supplication to him, that he would not perpetrate so great a wickedness. So he complied with her request, and repented of what he either had already done, or was about to do; whence it is well known that the Alexandrian Jews do with good reason celebrate this day, on the account that they had thereon been vouchsafed such an evident deliverance from God.
14. Mela, De Chorographia, 1.8-1.9, 1.22, 1.40 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
15. Tosefta, Sukkah, 4.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.6. Why did they blow three blasts? To make the people cease from work. The sexton took the trumpets, and went to the top of the highest roof in the city to summon those near the city to cease from work. Those near the limits of the city assembled themselves together and came to the schoolhouse. They did not come immediately the trumpets blew, but waited till all were gathered together, and then all came at once. When did they assemble? After one could fill a bottle of water, or fry a fish, or light his lamp. "
16. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 10.81 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
17. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 10.81 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
18. Pliny The Younger, Panegyric, 80.3-80.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
19. Papyri, P.Lond., 6.1912

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aegyptiaca	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 40
agrippa i	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
alexandria, greek and jewish rivalry in	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38, 39, 40
alexandria, prominent in the roman empire	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38, 40, 239
alexandria, residents of rebuked by dio chrysostom	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 239
alexandria	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24; Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55; Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
apocalypticism/apocalyptic	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 4
aqedah (binding of isaac)	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
baetis, river, barbarian	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 39, 40
city of alexandria, five districts	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
city of alexandria, necropoleis and cemeteries	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
commercialism and egypt	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38
crucifixion	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
decorations (in synagogue)	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
diaspora, mental instability of	Arampapaslis, Augoustakis, Froedge, Schroer, Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature (2023) 24
dio of prusa (chrysostom)	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 239
diodorus siculus	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 4
egypt, criticised in ancient sources	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 39, 40, 239
egypt, escapist fantasy	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 40
egypt, pharaonic	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 40
egypt/ägypten	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
emperors and egypt, caligula (gaius)	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38, 39, 40
emperors and egypt, claudius	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38, 39, 40
emperors and egypt, nero	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 40
emperors and egypt, trajan	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 239
emperors and egypt, vespasian	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 239
execution	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
fecundity	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
flaccus	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
gardens	Arampapaslis, Augoustakis, Froedge, Schroer, Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature (2023) 24
hunger	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
idolatry	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
imperialism	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 239
isaeum campense, temple of isis	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38
italy/italians	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 4
jews	Capponi, Augustan Egypt: The Creation of a Roman Province (2005) 185
jews in alexandria, ethnic cleansing	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, gerousia	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, great synagogue	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, jewish district/delta quarter	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, refugees	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
jews in alexandria, synagogues	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
josephus	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
judaean/jewish, anti-	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
judaean/jewish, identity	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
judaean/jewish	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
jupiter (also zeus)	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 239
leadership, synagogue, leadership, town, communal	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
macedonia/macedonian	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 4
nero, emperor, interested in aegyptiaca	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 40
nile, and grain supply (annona)	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38, 239
nile, benevolent	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 239
obelisks	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38
octavian	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
oracle	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
ousia	Capponi, Augustan Egypt: The Creation of a Roman Province (2005) 185
pagan, pagans, and synagogue	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
pagan, pagans, relationship with jewish community	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
petronius	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
pharos, port of alexandria	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 38
philo, descriptions of the city of alexandria	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 4
philo	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24; Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
philo of alexandria	Arampapaslis, Augoustakis, Froedge, Schroer, Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature (2023) 14, 24
pogrom	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55; Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
pogrom of	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
prayer, diaspora	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
ptolemaic	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
ptolemaic egypt	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 4
ptolemy iv	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
ptolemy viii	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24
reading, and sermon	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
riots	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
rome	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 4
samaria, samaria-sebaste, agrippa i	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
self/other, dualism in greek and roman thought	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 40
sermon (derashah), homily, and torah reading	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
statues	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
stobi synagogue, inscription	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
stobi synagogue	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
strategos	Capponi, Augustan Egypt: The Creation of a Roman Province (2005) 185
synagogues	Dijkstra and Raschle, Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity (2020) 55
syria, roman	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
theriomorphism, trademark institution of egypt, criticized by authors	Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 40
trajan, emperor	Schliesser et al., Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World (2021) 254
zodiac, significance	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
zodiac, synagogue mosaic floors'	Levine, The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years (2005) 67
ägypten/egypt	Bezzel and Pfeiffer, Prophecy and Hellenism (2021) 24