Julius Archelaus:

By: Richard Gottheil , Samuel Krauss

Son of Chelcias ("Ant." xix. 9, § 1; xx. 7, § 1 [without "Julius"]), and, to judge from his name, a Hellenized Jew, probably of a rich and noble family. He was chosen by King Agrippa I. as husband for his first daughter, Mariamne (Josephus, "Ant." xix. 9, § 1). Mariamne was only ten years old at her father's death (44); and the marriage took place under her brother Agrippa II. ( ib. xx. 7, § 1), a daughter, Berenice, being the result of the union. Mariamne subsequently left Archelaus and married the alabarch Demetrius ( ib. §, 3). Josephus refers, for the veracity of his history of the Jewish war, among others to Julius Archelaus, who was familiar with Hellenistic culture ("Contra Ap." i., § 9).