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The fortress was built by Herod the Great to commemorate his victory against the [[Parthians]] and as his burial site. During the Jewish War, in 71 CE, the fortress was conquered and destroyed by the Romans. It was reused by [[Bar Kokhba]] during the 2nd-century uprising. | The fortress was built by Herod the Great to commemorate his victory against the [[Parthians]] and as his burial site. Josephus describes the king's funeral procession and burial at Herodium. | ||
During the Jewish War, in 71 CE, the fortress was conquered and destroyed by the Romans. It was reused by [[Bar Kokhba]] during the 2nd-century uprising. | |||
==Herodium in ancient sources== | ==Herodium in ancient sources== | ||
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Herodium (or Herodion) was a fortress built by Herod the Great.
History
The fortress was built by Herod the Great to commemorate his victory against the Parthians and as his burial site. Josephus describes the king's funeral procession and burial at Herodium.
During the Jewish War, in 71 CE, the fortress was conquered and destroyed by the Romans. It was reused by Bar Kokhba during the 2nd-century uprising.
Herodium in ancient sources
Josephus, Jewish War
Herod "built a town on that spot in commemoration of his victory, and enhanced it with wonderful palaces... and he called it Herodion after himself" (The Wars of the Jews I, Chapter 13).
This fortress, which is some sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem, is naturally strong and very suitable for such a structure, for reasonably nearby is a hill, raised to a (greater) height by the hand of man and rounded off in the shape of a breast. At intervals it has round towers, and it has a steep ascent formed of two hundred steps of hewn stone. Within it are costly royal apartments made for security and for ornament at the same time. At the base of the hill there are pleasure grounds built in such a way as to be worth seeing, among other things because of the way in which water, which is lacking in that place, is brought in from a distance and at great expense. The surrounding plain was built up as a city second to none, with the hill serving as an acropolis for the other dwellings. (War I, 31, 10; Antiquities XIV, 323-325)
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Herodium in Scholarship
On My 8, 2007, Hebrew University professor Ehud Netzer announced the discovery of the remains of the tomb of Herod.
Herodium in Fiction
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