Quote Originally Posted by M V Agrippa
This may be a stupid question but what does your being jewish have to do with dressing up as a polybian triarii? If you want to be ironic why not dress up as a Arche Seleukeia unit for Hanukkah? might I suggest Iudaioi Taxeis (hows that for irony) or Argyraspidai?
That wouldn't be particularly ironic either. The Maccabaean revolt only involved a small population of the Jews from the already small population centered around the temple mount. Many Jews served in the Seleukid and Ptolemaic armies and government with major concentrations of them in Antiocheia, Alexandreia, and Babylonia.