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Ep 224: Barry Strauss on Ancient Rome’s Wars with Israel
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Barry Strauss, Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire, joins the show to discuss the long, fractious, often violent relationship between Ancient Rome and her Jewish subjects.
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• 01:11 Introduction
• 01:37 Rome and Parthia
• 07:50 Judea
• 12:07 Roman control
• 17:58 Jewish warfighting
• 20:20 Herod
• 26:03 The Great Revolt
• 31:06 Enter Parthia
• 33:23 The Temple
• 35:01 70 years
• 40:24 Driven out
• 42:02 Parallels with today
• 44:33 Donald Kagan
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