King Herod
The Ancients
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Herod's Relationship With Alexander
Soy: The mausoleum of herodium was built around the time he visited olympia. Soy: He wanted to make a connection between himself and alexander, but his jewish population would not have accepted him as a divinized ruler. Soy: If you really want to be a legitimate jewish king in that period, what you would want to do is situate yourself as a descendant of david rit. So for the greek and roman tradition, you're going to connect yourself to alexander. For the jewish tradition, however,you're going to connected yourself to David. And so i think it's all around this time that
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