Writing almost a century after the Bar Kochba revolt, Cassius Dio’s account of the revolt indicates that the Jewish forces arrayed against Rome were formidable. Yigael Yadin’s discovery in 1961 of the ...

Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in his ...