By Samuel Rocca
In the course of the moment century BC the dynasties of Herod and the Hasmoneans have been answerable for a big programme of castle improvement. Samuel Rocco examines the development, layout and background of those forts - starting from the traditional castle of Masada to Herod's personal palace, the Temple Mount and the partitions that defended Jerusalem in 3 centuries of civil stife and clash with Rome.
Modern images and full-color art recreate the websites, when exciting money owed of the sieges that those forts continued and considerate research of the successes and screw ups in their protecting gains illustrate their value in early Judaean historical past.
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Those that dared to complain were murdered by the Zealots. In Masada the situation was different. The defenders of Masada consisted only of the Zealots and their families. Moreover their leader, Eleazar ben Yair, was probably a highly charismatic figure; the orders of the leaders were followed to the bitter end. THE SITES AT WAR A plan of Pompey’s siege of Jerusalem, 63 BC. 1 – first Roman camp, 2 – second Roman camp, 3 – the site where the Roman Army was let in by the supporters of Hyrcanus, 4/5 – the Roman attacks on the Temple Mount from the west and from the north.
Moreover in AD 106, he annexed the neighbouring Nabataean kingdom, creating the Provincia Arabia. The Jews would once more fight against the Romans, under the leadership of Bar Kochba from AD 132–35, in Hadrian’s reign. The latter wished to rebuild Jerusalem as a Roman colony, Aelia Capitolina, and to erect a temple dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus on the site of the Jewish Temple. After three years of a hard-fought and bloody guerrilla war, mainly in southern Judaea, the Romans crushed the revolt.
On its coins are depicted the standards of the legions III Gallica, VI Ferrata, X Fretensis and XII Fulminata. Vespasian established a colony at Caesarea Maritima, the Colonia Prima Flavia Augusta Caesarea. Later, Domitian established another Roman colony at Flavia Neapolis, modern Schechem. Flavian Judaea became a senatorial province, and was no longer an equestrian one, a move intended to prevent the abuses that brought the Jews to revolt in AD 66. Jerusalem was left in ruins, although the X Legion Fretensis remained there, encamped on the site of Herod’s Palace, protected by the three surviving towers of the citadel.