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balbo escribió: ↑Mié Oct 02, 2024 9:02 am El de Historia de Roma en 21 mujeres lo tenía apuntado en un Excel de futuras lecturas. Pero me doy cuenta que con lo que has puesto de los de las palabrotas como que voy a pasar de leerlo. Una pregunta ¿Sabes si los demás libros de la autora son así, de ese tono?

Inigo escribió: ↑Mar Oct 01, 2024 1:00 pm Cuando el hielo deje de crujir. Novela publicada por Pàmies Editorial (2024) del escritor Santiago Díaz Morlán.

Herod the Great (73–4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Roman revolution to establish himself as a major figure in a changing Roman world and transform the landscape of Judaea. Both Jews and Christians developed myths about his cruelty and rashness: in Christian tradition he was cast as the tyrant who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents; in the Talmud, despite fond memories of his glorious Temple in Jerusalem, he was recalled as a persecutor of rabbis.

The life of Herod is better documented than that of any other Jew from antiquity, and Martin Goodman examines the extensive literary and archaeological evidence to provide a vivid portrait of Herod in his sociopolitical context: his Idumaean origins, his installation by Rome as king of Judaea and cultivation of leading Romans, his massive architectural projects, and his presentation of himself as a Jew, most strikingly through the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple. Goodman argues that later stories depicting Herod as a monster derived from public interest in his execution of three of his sons after dramatic public trials foisted on him by a dynastic policy imposed by the Roman emperor.