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The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus , [ 3 ] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans , in whose service he became a historian.
In 73 AD, the Roman governor of Iudaea, Lucius Flavius Silva, headed the Roman legion X Fretensis and laid siege to Masada. [11] Another source gives the year of the siege of Masada as 73 or 74 AD. [18] The Roman legion surrounded Masada, building a circumvallation wall and then a siege ramp against the western face of the plateau. [11]
The Masada myth is the early Zionist retelling of the Siege of Masada, and an Israeli national myth. [1] The Masada myth is a selectively constructed narrative based on Josephus 's account, with the Sicarii depicted as heroes, instead of as brigands.
Masada Remains of Roman camp F near Masada. Lucius Flavius Silva Nonius Bassus was a late-1st-century Roman general, governor of the province of Iudaea and consul. [1] Silva was the commander of the army, composed mainly of the Legio X Fretensis, in 72 AD that laid siege to the near-impregnable mountain fortress of Masada, occupied by a group of Jewish rebels dubbed the Sicarii by Flavius himself.
When Masada's defenders refused to surrender, Silva established siege camps and a circumvallation wall around the fortress, along with a siege ramp, features that remain among the best-preserved examples of Roman siegecraft visible today. [428] [415] The siege lasted between two and six months during the winter season. [415]
Masada The Dovekeepers is a two-part television adaptation based on the book of the same name by Alice Hoffman from executive producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett . It features the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War . [ 1 ]
They later became known for a reported mass suicide at the Siege of Masada. The Sicarii carried sicae, or small daggers , concealed in their cloaks; [1] at public gatherings, they pulled out these daggers to attack, blending into the crowd after the deed to escape detection. The only source for the history of the Sicarii is Josephus.
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