In Malta, or Melita, is St. Paul’s Bay, to this day commemorating the site of his landing and shipwreck, just as Lud gave London its name, and the myth of Lud points back to a personality behind the myth. The songs of the Arabs are the same to-day as in Paul’s time and can be found in Newman’s _Babylon and Nineveh_. The whole story of the gladiatorial combat in Cæsarea, to which old Julius refers, will be found in Josephus. Both sides fought till the arena swam in blood to the ankles, and of one side not a man was left alive. Other victor slaves were given their freedom. Felix, like Herod the Great, tried to clean out the robber bands from the caves of Galilee; but Felix was charged with selling the rescued victims as slaves to accumulate a fortune for himself, though he had, himself, been slave. This can all be found in Josephus with the full story of the Herod family and their perplexing intermarriages and repudiations of marriages. Bernice’s flight from her old husband was by pretense a religious vow, but openly in the theater of Rome, she was twitted with taking the vow to escape her spouse. THE FAMILY OF HEROD THE GREAT Herod the Great | | d. 4 B.C. (married five times, | had ten children, including) +------------+-----------+-----+-----------+----------+-------+----- | | | | | | Aristobulus Alexander Herod Philip Archelaus | Philip | m. (1) Herodias King of Judaea | Tetrach of | banished to Spain 4 B.C. | Ituræa | who divorced him deposed A.D. 6 | m. Salome | | | (2) Salome | | Herod Antipas | Tetrarch of Galilee | m. (2) Herodias +-----------------------+----------------------+ | | | Herod Agrippa I Herodias Herod d. A.D. 44 m. (1) Herod Philip King of Chalcis (Acts 12) (2) Herod Antipas m. Bernice 1st +-------------------+-------------------+ | | | Herod Agrippa II Bernice Drusilla (Acts 26) m. Polemon 2nd m. Felix (Acts 24) Titus, Vespasian’s son, not yet thirty, will be more fully described in the chapter on the fall of Jerusalem. Keep him distinct in your mind from Titus, the Greek evangelist of Crete, who became Bishop. Philemon, the merchant of Colossé, Paul’s friend, was converted to the new faith in Corinth or Athens.