Antigone II

Biography

When the Roman , become a great power in the area, succeeded the Séleucides, they granted to the king Hasmonéen Hyrcan II, a limited authority, under the control of the Roman governor of Damas. The Jews, hostile with the new mode, multiplied the insurrections during the following years. It is Antigone II Mattathias which made the last attempt restore the glory of the dynasty hasmonéenne.

The Parthes, having taken Jerusalem, kill Phasael, and put on the Antigone throne, wire of Aristobule II.

Antigone II had promised with the Parthes that if they managed to remove Hérode Large the with its party and to relieve Hyrcan II of its functions of Large Sacrificateur to be established in its place, it their would give thousand talents and 500 Jewish women selected in the entourage of Hérode.

Death

In 37 av. J. - C., Antoine made slice the head Antigone II Mattathias in Antioche, it was the first Roman to make perish a king of the kind. While making use of such a ashamed torment for a king, Antoine thought of darkening the memory of Antigone and of softening the aversion of the Jews against Hérode the Large one. The death of Antigone II Mattathias put an end to the mode Hasmonéens and the country of Juda (Judaea) became a province of the Roman Empire.

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