c. AD 94

J. AJ 19.8

The Antiquities of the Jews 19.8

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

19.8

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

8He also adorned his own house and his gardens with the curiosities brought from those temples, together with the houses he lay at when he traveled all over Italy; whence he did not scruple to give a command that the statue of Jupiter Olympius, so called because he was honored at the Olympian games by the Greeks, which was the work of Phidias the Athenian, should be brought to Rome.