c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.562

The Wars of the Jews 1.562

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.562

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

562and he besought him earnestly, since there were so many of the royal family alive, that he would change those [intended] marriages. Now the king had nine wives, and children by seven of them; Antipater was himself born of Doris, and Herod [Philip] of Mariamne, the high priest’s daughter; Antipas also and Archelaus were by Malthace, the Samaritan, as was his daughter Olympias, which his brother Joseph’s son had married. By Cleopatra of Jerusalem he had Herod and Philip; and by Pallas, Phasaelus;