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Archimedes before his death with a Roman soldier – copy of a Roman mosaic from the 2nd century. Marcus Claudius Marcellus had ordered that Archimedes, the well-known mathematician – and possibly equally well-known to Marcellus as the inventor of the mechanical devices that had so dominated the siege – should not be killed. Archimedes, who ...
The First Jewish-Roman War ended with the devastating siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, including the burning of the Second Temple—the center of Jewish religious and national life. Roman forces destroyed other towns and villages throughout Judaea, causing massive loss of life and displacement of the population. [12]
It sheds little light on Archimedes as a person, and focuses on the war machines that he is said to have built in order to defend the city from the Romans. [23] Polybius remarks how, during the Second Punic War , Syracuse switched allegiances from Rome to Carthage , resulting in a military campaign under the command of Marcus Claudius Marcellus ...
Jewish–Roman tensions resulted in several Jewish–Roman wars between the years 66 and 135 AD, which resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple and the institution of the Jewish Tax in 70 (those who paid the tax were exempt from the obligation of making sacrifices to the Roman imperial cult).
The First Jewish–Roman War is regarded by most scholars as a prime example of ancient Jewish nationalism. [50] At its core, the revolt was driven by the pursuit of "freedom", which entailed removing Roman control and establishing an independent Jewish state. [51]
The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea. Following a five-month siege, the Romans destroyed the city, including the Second Temple. [1] [2] [3]
Gallus was thus forced to stop only two days' march from the spice-producing country and to take the remains of his battered army, worn out by thirst, hunger and disease, back to Egypt. [44] 67. As hostilities between the Romans and the Jews began, Vespasian succeeded, after a long and difficult siege, in occupying the fortified city of ...
The Jewish War [a] [b] is a work of Jewish history written by Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historian. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has been described by the historian Steve Mason as "perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history".