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This article needed some clean up. Contemporary historians know there were inter and intra communal fights and polemics in Alexandria. To use Josephus, who himself was writing a polemic against the Greeks, who is then attributing to Philo (50 years later no less) who is leading a delegation with the purpose of making an argument for one side on a complex set of antagonisms and the third hand source for allegations of what Apion might have said is simply wrong. The Flaccum, the Against Apion are inherently propagandistic works. We know they contain many false statements already. The embassy itself was a hugely POV exercise in competing narratives and accusationsPerdurant 16:49, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- I'm no sure that I follow you - especially the bit about Philo. Of course Against Apion is polemical. That does not mean that it does not provide evidernce of Apion's views, just that we should be aware of the fact that it's tendentious. Josephus would not bother to rebut arguments that had not been made, so we can reasonably consider Apion to be anti-Jewish and to have repeated the story about the human sacrifice which you have cut out. Paul B (talk) 14:31, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
