The Antagonists Author:Ernest K. Gann This is the story of . . . the Roman siege of the JSews in the year 73 AD, when two great antagonists, besieger and besieged, faced each other: the Roman General Flavius Silva, Commander of the Xth Legion and Procurator of Judea; and Eleazar be Yair, leader of the 900 Jews still resisting the power of Imperial Rome and stubbornlly clinging to fr... more »eedom on the heights of Masada.« less