Episode 31: Exile of Antipas; Trouble in Jamnia

After serving as tetrarch since 4 BCE, Herod Antipas and his wife Herodias are driven by envy at Herod Agrippa's recent promotion. Antipas and Herodias decide to make their case to Caesar directly, but their plans are revealed and undermined by Agrippa and Vitellius, the Roman governor of Syria. In the meantime, in Jamnia of Judea, the Gentiles and Jews quarrel, requiring the intervention of Caesar's procurator of that city. Gaius Caesar continues to disrespect the Senate and even entertains the notion of making his horse a consul. Gaius' cruelty and violence continue to increase.   SHOWNOTES Herod Antipas and Herodias (Josephus, Antiquities 18.143,147, cf. 240-252; Josephus, War. 18.181; Philo, Legatio ad Gaium 23–24).  Jamnia events (Philo, Legatio ad Gaium §§162, 198–203; cf. Josephus, Antiquities 18.257–260). Gaius' horse 'swift' as consul (Dio 59.14.7).