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Excerpt from Josephus, Vol. 1 of 8: With an English Translation; The Life Against Apion The event which occasioned this appendix was the publication of a rival history Of the Jewish War by a compatriot, Justus of Tiberias, who accused Josephus of causing his native city (tiberias) to revolt from Rome 336 The damaging criticisms of Justus were calculated to endanger, not only the sale Of J osephus's works, but even his secure position at Rome. They called for an immediate rejoinder. The Life, then, by no means answers to its name; it is not a complete biography. The bulk of it is the author's defence of his conduct during the half-year of his command in Galilee before the siege of Jotapata. To this, brief sketches Of his youth in Palestine and his later years in Rome have been added as prologue and epilogue. The work, in which the author indulges his vanity to the full, is, alike in matter and in manner, the least satisfactory Of his writings. The weakness of his boasted strategy is on a par with the crudity of the style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.