Herod I of Judea
Herod I of Judea (c. 74/73 BCE – c. 4 BCE), also known as Herod the Great, was the Jewish monarch of the eponymous Herodian kingdom from 37 BCE until his death.[1]
Biography[edit | edit source]
In 38 BCE, a year before formally ascending the throne of his Roman client state, Herod's early rule was already so authoritarian that the fledgling Egyptian Hidden Ones had taken notice and deemed it tyrannical.[2] The Roman general Gaius Julius Rufio had planned to visit Herod in the hopes of securing an alliance with Cleopatra and Marcus Antonius, [citation needed] but Bayek of Siwa assassinated him before he could make the journey.[3] Seeing that Herod would not stop his ways, the Hidden Ones tasked their newly-inducted member Kawab, son of the late Order of the Ancients member Taharqa, with travelling to the kingdom's region of Judea in order to help deal with him.[2]
Towards the end of his life, Herod contracted an unknown and agonizing illness. The Jewish historian Josephus wrote in his 94 CE book Antiquities of the Jews that he suffered from severe intestinal pain, bodily convulsions, and genital gangrene,[1] though nothing proves that it resulted from the Hidden Ones' undefined actions against him 40 years prior.[2] With his death, the kingdom was divided between his sons Herod Archelaus, Herod Antipas, Herod Philip II, and his sister Salome I, though none of them would reunify the kingdom and their lands would eventually be subsumed into the imperial provinces of Roman Judaea or Roman Syria.[4]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Unity (first mentioned) (mentioned in Database entry only)
- Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Hidden Ones (mentioned only)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Herod the Great on Wikipedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Hidden Ones – Shadows of the Scarab
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Hidden Ones – Sic Semper Tyrannis
- ↑ Herodian tetrarchy on Wikipedia