Aristobulus the Younger

Aristobulus the Younger was a son of Aristobulus , the son of Herod the Great and thus his grandson. He lived around the turn of the ages and died after his brother Herod Agrippa I , who died in 44 AD. While his brothers Herod Agrippa I as king of Judea (37-44 AD) and Herod as ruler of Chalcis (44-48 AD) came to power, Aristobulus remained a private man. His relationship with his brother Herodes Agrippa was clouded and he convicted him against the Roman governor Flaccus in connection with border disputes of bribery. When a statue of Caligula was to be erected in the Jerusalem temple , however, he was at the court in Tiberias in 40 and prevented the erection with his brothers by convincing the governor Publius Petronius that an uprising would break out if the order was carried out would. Aristobulus was married to Jotape , daughter of King Sampsigeramos II of Emesa . The marriage, however, was the only child of the deaf and mute Jotape.

See also

• Herodians

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• Flavius ​​Josephus , Jewish Antiquities 18, 5, 4 - 18, 8, 4.
• Flavius ​​Josephus, History of the Jewish War 1, 28, 1 - 2, 1, 6.

literature

• Klaus Bringmann : Aristobulus 5). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 1105.
• Carsten Colpe : Aristobulus 5). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 564.
• Ulrich Wilcken : Aristobulus 9 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 910.

Web links

• Julia Wilker: Aristobulus II, King of Judea. (pdf, 3.9 MB) In: Amici Populi Romani: Prosopography of the foreign friends of Rome. University of Waterloo, December 13, 2017, pp. 121–122 .