Preface to Volume I §1 The twenty books of Jewish Antiquities, which are designated the ἀρχαιολογία Ἰουδαϊκή, were published by Josephus1 and sent to Rome by Epaphroditus, the freedman of Domitian, during the thirteenth year of Domitian’s reign. This occurred in almost the ninety-third year after the birth of Christ, as the author was completing his fifty-sixth year, as he himself affirms at the end of book 20. With this volume a life of Josephus (Ἰωσήπου βίος), written by the author himself, was