The Kitos War - A Genocide You Have Probably Never Heard Of
Jul 23, 2016 4:49:08 GMT
Post by Jack Loomes on Jul 23, 2016 4:49:08 GMT
There's a good reason why the Kitos War goes largely unknown, and why its Wikipedia article is subject to constant fluctuations in size and detail: the Kitos War was a Jewish instigated Genocide of Romans & Greeks. The Kitos War resulted in the destruction of the Capitol of Judea and the reduction of Jews from a substantial population group in the Eastern Mediterranean to a small minority relegated to live on the Eastern Fringes of the Empire for the safety of Roman Citizens and subject peoples of other ethnoreligious groups.
The Kitos War was a Genocide by Jewish Rebels primarily aimed at non-Jewish civilians. Some areas were so completely ethnically cleansed of non-Jews - in other words subject to well organised genocide - that once the Romans had defeated the Jewish rebellion (and moved the agitators to the Eastern border) large swathes of the Eastern Mediterranean had literally no one living in them and had to be repopulated by the Romans by way of resettlement of citizens and subjects moved from the Western half of the Empire. Ancient writers commented that the insurgency was marked by extremely cruel and slow tortures of Roman and Greek men, women and children. To this day the Torah follows the name of Emperor Hadrian (the vanquisher of the Jewish rebels) with the curse "crush his bones".
This is historical fact. You will undoubtedly run across Jewish historians in the modern age extolling that the numbers and extent of the carnage was exaggerated, which was once considered fair, but we simply know of too many examples where the writers of antiquity were thought to be exaggerating - only to be vindicated. One of many examples is that of the Carthaginians who the Romans said sacrificed their children to Kronos - many modern writers simply couldn't believe it - but archaeological excavations have made grisly discoveries near Carthage, Sardinia and Sicily (at Carthaginian settlements exclusively) that back this claim unequivocally. I won't go into detail about the Carthaginian or Jewish attrocities, as they were utterly repulsive and an affront to civilisation; but I have provided sources for you below for further reading.
Once again History proves herself stranger and more interesting than any episode of Gam3 of Thr0n35 ever could (and in my view history is infinitely more worthwhile spending your time reading than historically influenced fiction):
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War
Primary sources for what is generally referred to as the second Jewish War
Δίων ὁ Κάσσιος Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἱστορία / Cassius Dio, Roman History:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=cassius+dio&go=Go
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dio%27s_Roman_History
Φλαυίου Ἰωσήπου ἱστορία Ἰουδαϊκοῦ πολέμου πρὸς Ῥωμαίους βιβλία / Jospehus, The Wars of the Jews:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2850
On the Carthaginian worship of Kronos:
www.archaeology.org/news/1759-140123-carthage-tophet-sacrifice
The Kitos War was a Genocide by Jewish Rebels primarily aimed at non-Jewish civilians. Some areas were so completely ethnically cleansed of non-Jews - in other words subject to well organised genocide - that once the Romans had defeated the Jewish rebellion (and moved the agitators to the Eastern border) large swathes of the Eastern Mediterranean had literally no one living in them and had to be repopulated by the Romans by way of resettlement of citizens and subjects moved from the Western half of the Empire. Ancient writers commented that the insurgency was marked by extremely cruel and slow tortures of Roman and Greek men, women and children. To this day the Torah follows the name of Emperor Hadrian (the vanquisher of the Jewish rebels) with the curse "crush his bones".
This is historical fact. You will undoubtedly run across Jewish historians in the modern age extolling that the numbers and extent of the carnage was exaggerated, which was once considered fair, but we simply know of too many examples where the writers of antiquity were thought to be exaggerating - only to be vindicated. One of many examples is that of the Carthaginians who the Romans said sacrificed their children to Kronos - many modern writers simply couldn't believe it - but archaeological excavations have made grisly discoveries near Carthage, Sardinia and Sicily (at Carthaginian settlements exclusively) that back this claim unequivocally. I won't go into detail about the Carthaginian or Jewish attrocities, as they were utterly repulsive and an affront to civilisation; but I have provided sources for you below for further reading.
Once again History proves herself stranger and more interesting than any episode of Gam3 of Thr0n35 ever could (and in my view history is infinitely more worthwhile spending your time reading than historically influenced fiction):
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War
Primary sources for what is generally referred to as the second Jewish War
Δίων ὁ Κάσσιος Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἱστορία / Cassius Dio, Roman History:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=cassius+dio&go=Go
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dio%27s_Roman_History
Φλαυίου Ἰωσήπου ἱστορία Ἰουδαϊκοῦ πολέμου πρὸς Ῥωμαίους βιβλία / Jospehus, The Wars of the Jews:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2850
On the Carthaginian worship of Kronos:
www.archaeology.org/news/1759-140123-carthage-tophet-sacrifice
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