Ant . xii three, I (121): Seijdcvrts 01 V4A<^av6p€is *ai Mvrto^cts tva ra StVata rrjs TroAt-rtuxs IA. r)KeTi ptvri rots '/ouSatots, OVK etreru^ov. For discussions of Josephus' claims written prior to the booklet of the papyrus containing Claudius' letter see e. g. Th. Mommsen, Romische Gesck. V, p. 491 ; H. Willrich, Beitrdge zur alien Geschichte III (1903), pp. 403-7 ; J. Wellhausen, Israelit. u. jud. Gesch. (^1901), pp. 239 ff. ; F. Stahelin, Der Antisemitismus des AlUrtums (1905), p. 35. 15. Ant. xii three, 2 (125) runs: TOJV yap 7v lir' avrovs *K(v *Avn,o\os o E€\*VKOV vlutvos, 6 irapa rots "EAAijcu &€os Aeyojicvos, ftovot iwfyatoiv. . . The word rfjs TroAtrctaj, rjv avrots IScoKC? should be construed to intend *the (democratic) structure which he granted to them' (so e. g. Josephus Loeb vol. VII, App. C). however it is far extra ordinary to learn TroAiTeta as which means 'citizenship' ; avroty if so could so much evidently suggest the Jews. The Milesians did even if supply Antiochus II the extra identify 'Theos* simply because he introduced them from the tyrant Timarchos (Appian, Syr. sixty five; proven by means of the inscriptions : OGIS, no. 226 = Ins. Did y ma, no. 358 ; OGIS, no. 227 — Ins. Didyma, no. 493). equally, on an inscription from Smyrna it truly is said of Seleucus II, son and successor of Antiochus II, that he upheld the city's autonomia and dtmokratia (11. IO-H). for the reason that without delay previous this there's an honorific allusion to Antiochus II, it sounds as if he was once the true benefactor of town. Seleucus II basically proven the rights bestowed through him. See OGIS, no. 229 = H. H. Schmitt, Staatsvertrage des Altertums III (1969), no. 492 (with bibliography and discussion). Given the fluctuating barriers of the ability of the rival Hellenistic monarchies and the character of the diplomatic vocabulary hired relating to the king by means of the towns of their public decrees, those allusions should not of themselves adequate to set up a basic coverage of the granting of democratic constitutions through Antiochus II. If even though we take the allusion via Josephus to be to the granting of citizenship to the Jews there, there's a few aid for this in Jos. C. Ap. ii four (39) : °* *v *E<^€aat KOI Kara rrfv oAAi? v 'loaviav rois ou&ycvcat iroAtVat? Oftcuwfiovau', rovro aurot? raiv StaSo'xtov. yet once more the precise nature of the suitable granted is 130 §31. Judaism within the Diaspora professionals demanded for the duration of Augustus that the Jews may still both be excluded from those rights, or be pressured to renounce their very own designated cult, and worship the local gods, M. Agrippa, who at the moment had total cost of the Greek provinces, safe the traditional rights of the Jews, whose case used to be represented via Nicolaus of Damascus within the identify of Herod (14 B. C. ). 1 Jews in Sardis additionally loved convinced particular rights, however the textual content which attests those isn't really safe proof for his or her having loved the citizenship additionally. 17 Josephus equally stories that below Augustus the Jewish groups not just of Asia but additionally of Gyrene took steps to guard the 'equality of rights' (isonomia) granted them by means of the Hellenistic kings.