In his Vita, he explains how he befriended the actor Aliturus and curried favor with Poppaea.
In his Vita, he explains how he befriended the actor Aliturus and curried favor with Poppaea. He gained special favor due to his descent, through his mother, from the Asmonean princes and from his treatise against the Alexandrian Greek scholar Apion. As governor of Galilee, he held out in Jotapata against a siege for 47 days, but he eventually surrendered and is believed to have betrayed his people. It was as a ward of Vespasian that this former Pharisee wrote his best-known works. FTP, identify this historian known for his Bellum Judaicum, or History of the Jewish War.
In his Vita, he explains how he befriended the actor Aliturus and curried favor with Poppaea.
Flavius {Josephus}