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Against Apion
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<p><i>Against Apion</i> is a polemical work written by <a href="/facts/Flavius_Josephus/RgFoKIYH">Flavius Josephus</a> as a defense of <a href="/facts/Judaism/tjQ5Tgs6">Judaism</a> as a classical religion and philosophy against criticism by <a href="/facts/Apion/DbdMehXX">Apion</a>, stressing its antiquity against what he perceived as more recent traditions of the Greeks. One of his main sources was <a href="/facts/Menander_of_Ephesus/Qv6IhfNo">Menander of Ephesus</a>. <i>Against Apion</i> cites Josephus' earlier work <a href="/facts/Antiquities_of_the_Jews/XTbIho2I">Antiquities of the Jews</a>, so can be dated after C.E. 94. It was possibly written in the early second century. </p>