Ep 224: Barry Strauss on Ancient Rome’s Wars with Israel

School of War · Aug 22, 2025 · 46m

Barry Strauss, Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire, joins the show to discuss the long, fractious, often violent relationship between Ancient Rome and her Jewish subjects.

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Times

• 01:11 Introduction

• 01:37 Rome and Parthia

• 07:50 Judea

• 12:07 Roman control

• 17:58 Jewish warfighting

• 20:20 Herod

• 26:03 The Great Revolt

• 31:06 Enter Parthia

• 33:23 The Temple

• 35:01 70 years

• 40:24 Driven out

• 42:02 Parallels with today

• 44:33 Donald Kagan

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