# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/flavius-hyrcanus
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:27:32.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/flavius-hyrcanus"
name: "Flavius Hyrcanus"
slug: "flavius-hyrcanus"
description: "Flavius Josephus was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed Hasmonean royal ancestry."
tagline: "Late 1st century / early 2nd century aristocratic Roman Jew"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Joseph%2C_son_of_Gorian%2C_called_Flavius_Josephus_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Joseph%2C_son_of_Gorian%2C_called_Flavius_Josephus_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "73"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           26.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.534089333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Hyrcanus"
    title: "Flavius Hyrcanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5458123"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations