Eupolemus

Eupolemos was an ancient Greek-speaking historian of the 2nd century BC and is the earliest Jewish- Hellenistic historian.

Perhaps the historians discussed here is identical with the Messenger Eupolemos, son of John, son of Acre. This has been sent in the year 161 BC on behalf of the Maccabees to Rome to close a treaty of friendship.

Only a few fragments survive of Eupolemos ' works of Alexander polymath ( mid-1st century BC) have been excerpted in his writing " On the Jews " and later quoted by Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea excerpts. These are now collected in The fragments of the Greek historian Felix Jacoby (No. 723 ). A German translation offers Nicholas Walter.

The fragments obtained all seem to a paper "On the Kings in Judea " (Greek Περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ βασιλέων ) to have heard mentioned by Clement of Alexandria.

He is to be distinguished from the so-called pseudo - Eupolemos ( The fragments of Greek historians, No. 724).