Category:Ascalon (subject)
Ascalon (modern Ashkelon, Israel) is a city on the Mediterranean coast.
History
Ascalon was a very old Phoenician settlement, often recorded in ancient Jewish sources. After the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE, it became an important Hellenistic seaport. It was under Ptolemaic and then Seleucid rule. Ascalon was the only coastal town that Alexander Jannaeus did not attack. Cleopatra VII used the city as her place of refuge when her brother and sister exiled her in 49 BCE.
The Romans recognized the autonomy of the city. Ascalon was not annexed to the kingdom of Herod the Great, even though the king adorned it with public buildings and had probably a palace there.
During the Jewish War, Ascalon remained loyal to Rome, and in the following centuries it grew to be an important center in Roman Palestina.
Ascalon in ancient sources
Josephus, Jewish War
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Ascalon in Scholarship
Ascalon in Fiction
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References (articles)
- Ascalon / The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1973-1987 Schurer / Vermes), book / 2 (1979) 105-108
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