[B-Greek] Antipas as "king"

Elliot Poe Elliot.Poe at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 12:07:01 EDT 2007


Although the BDAG does not communicate this well, I believe the 
reference is to client kingship, not Herod Antipas in particular:

nam reges Syriae, regis Antiochi filios pueros, scitis Romae nuper 
fuisse (Cicero, Verr. 4, 27).

Yours,
Elliot Poe.

Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>On Apr 20, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>In the BDAG entry on BASILEUS I see the following:
>>
>>Herod Antipas (not really a king [Jos., Ant. 17, 188; Dit., Or. 416;
>>417], but occasionally given that title: Cicero, Verr. 4, 27)
>>
>>However, when I've looked at the Cicero text  cited here, I do not  
>>find
>>any such appellation as BDAG says is to be found there.  Indeed, I  
>>don't
>>seem to find a reference to Antipas, let alone to Antipas as
>>BASILEUS/Rex, in the entirety of In Verr.
>>
>>Am I missing something?  Or is BDAG in error here?
>>    
>>
>
>Cicero's prosecution of Verres took place, as I recall, in 70 B.C. How
>he might have commented on Herod Antipas at that point escapes me.
>I think there must be an error in the reference in BDAg.
>
>Carl W. Conrad
>Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
>cwconrad2 at mac.com
>WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
>
>
>---
>B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek
>B-Greek mailing list
>B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek
>
>  
>




More information about the B-Greek mailing list