c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.268

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.268

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.268

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

268for, in the first place, he appointed solemn games to be celebrated every fifth year, in honor of Caesar, and built a theater at Jerusalem, as also a very great amphitheater in the plain. Both of them were indeed costly works, but opposite to the Jewish customs; for we have had no such shows delivered down to us as fit to be used or exhibited by us;