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Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher Philo Judaeus.
In 39 or 40 CE, following a pogrom against the Jewish community in Alexandria, Philo Judaeus led an embassy to the Roman emperor Caligula.
Philo petitioned the emperor to reassert the Jewish rights that had been originally granted by the Ptolemies and subsequently confirmed by the emperor Augustus.1