Aulus Avilius Flaccus

Aulus Avillius Flaccus († 39 AD on Andros ) was a Roman knight, and from 32 AD until shortly before the October 20, 38 Prefect of Egypt.

Born in Rome Flaccus was a playmate of two successors of Augustus, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, and a friend of the late Roman emperor Tiberius. Flaccus was the accuser of the elder Agrippina, the mother of the Emperor Caligula, who was sent into exile because of their problematic relationship with Tiberius. In the succession of Tiberius Flaccus stood on the side of Tiberius Gemellus and thus against Caligula.

From 32 AD to 38 AD was Flaccus prefect of Egypt. In the Diaspora community Alexandria, Greeks and Jews lived together, he approved the installation of statues of emperors in the synagogues. After it was therefore to civil unrest, he told the Jews by edict to strangers in the city of the Greeks. When the new Jewish King Herod Agrippa I. on his way to Palestine in August 38 in Alexandria halted, he was ridiculed by the Greek population by an anti-Jewish satire. However, it did not stop with verbal and non-violent offenses. Situated incitement Greeks stormed the synagogues and put pictures on there emperor, plundered Jewish homes and businesses and distributed, abused and murdered Jews. During these clashes between Greeks and Romans Flaccus deprived the Jews the right of citizenship. He also had 38 members of the Council of Elders publicly whipped. The riots against Jews developed into the biggest pogrom, known from antiquity.

One month after the riots was Flaccus, but not deposed because of his transgressions against the Alexandrian Jews of Caligula. He rather the process was made ​​because he was hated as a friend of Tiberius at Caligula. Flaccus was accused of treason in the Roman Empire. He was exiled to Andros and executed there in A.D. 39.

The main source to Flaccus In Flaccum the Jewish thinker Philo of Alexandria.

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