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...paintings by grasping its root: energy. Always in his best work there are the signs of overflowing vitality, constrained by form's superego, the mode -- tragic, idyllic, epic, sacred. The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, 1638, is such a painting. % Poussin based it on a classical source -- Flavius Josephus' account of the sack of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus and his army. Its obvious formal prototype is the Roman battle sarcophagus, with figures arrayed in a frieze; its pictorial roots, expressed in the nobly articulated figures of enslaved Jews and conquering centurions, lie in Raphael. With its structure...
...Flavius Josephus, in The Antiquities of the Jews
...lengthy account of the battle of Masada, Historian Flavius Josephus described in meticulous detail the participants, the strategy, the topography and Masada's elaborate buildings. Modern historians had little else to go on in their studies of Masada; because of its inaccessible location and difficult terrain, the fortress until recently had been only partially probed by archaeologists. Between 1963 and 1965, however, Masada was subjected to its second great siege-by diggers, not soldiers...
...most momentous centuries in the history of the Jewish people would be almost a total blank were it not for the writings of one incredibly durable historian: Flavius Josephus. Only the New Testament and a few other fragments deal with the period 100 B.C.-A.D. 100; yet posterity has not thanked Josephus for his labors. One writer recently accused him of "cowardice, duplicity, treason, arrogance, deviousness, horrifying brutality and foul deception"; and historians have agreed that he was at least a traitor to the Jewish people...
...Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...