The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder

Netzer, Ehud; Laureys-Chachy, Rachel

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“…There is no archaeological evidence indicating any physical remains of a Hasmonean stronghold. Archaeological excavations on Masada confirmed that the earliest buildings were indeed Herodian (Netzer, 2006).…”

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“…Phase 3: Erection of a casemate wall (20) around the edge of the plateau, more storerooms on the western and southern sides (22) and further additions to the Western Palace (19) (Netzer, 2006). There is broad agreement among scholars that the nucleus of the Western Palace was built first and for the purposes of this section it will be called the Core Palace (28 × 24.5 metres).…”

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“…Both were built at the same time, but they appear to have been used separately. The pools were both lined with ash lime plaster (Netzer, 2006;. Three columbaria towers were built.…”

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“…Once it had been suitably improved, the Caesarea harbor-now called Sebastos, after the Roman emperorbecame a key component in the promotion of travel inland through Judea and to Jerusalem. 34 By the late first century BCE, Jewish pilgrims traveling to Judea by sea and disembarking at Caesarea would have immediately been confronted by the city's grand Temple of Rome and Augustus, which was yet another indication of the cultural transformation of this region. 35 Roughly contemporaneously, Herod convinced the Jerusalem authorities to tear down the city's existing sanctuary to God and rebuild it with a complex that would have been unrivaled in size and grandeur in the eastern Mediterranean.…”

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Sightseeing and Spectacle at the Jewish Temple

Gordon

2019

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Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period (second century BCE–70 CE) was transformed into the largest pilgrimage city of the Hellenized East and the sole locus of sacrificial worship of the Jewish God in greater Judea. As argued in this paper, it also became a place for sightseeing and spectacle. By the early Roman era, movement to the city for pilgrimage was a significant component of Mediterranean and Near Eastern travel. The Jewish festival experience may have evolved to cater to the tastes of foreigners now regularly visiting the city from the Jewish Diaspora. The architecture of Herod's Temple complex and the distinctive religious customs practiced within its walls intrigued visitors, whether Jewish or non-Jewish. For those unable to witness the Temple or participate in one of its festivals firsthand, a virtual visit through a “walking-tour” description would have to suffice. Such descriptions, which are attested from the earliest days of the Second Temple, can charter in imaginative invention in order to foster a sense of awe and wonder for the audience.

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“…32.11) In 16 B.C. Herod the Great invited M. Vipsanius Agrippa (Augustus' lifelong right-hand man) to visit Judea and examine his new and innovative architecture at Sebaste, Caesarea, Alexandrium and Herodium; the next spring Herod followed Agrippa to tour the architecture of Asia Minor (Jos., AJ,25,p. 13).…”

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The Development of Panoramic Sensibilities in Art, Literature, Architecture and Gardens in the Villas of Rome in the Late Republic and Early Empire: The Perspective from Stabiae

Howe¹

2019

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The Borderless World of the Late Hellenistic Mediterranean Elite 1 The immense proliferation of Roman luxury villas (villae maritimae) around the Bay of Naples seems to have accelerated rapidly after the Social War of 91-89 B.C. and Pompeius' suppression of piracy in 74 B.C., so much that by the time Strabo was writing in about 9 B.C. the area was… "…strewn, in part with these cities… and in part with residences and plantations which, following in unbroken succession, present the aspect of a single city". (Strab., 5.4.8) The process of increasing the luxury of townhouses in Rome (domus) and villas in the Bay of Naples, accelerated in the last decades of the Republic and coincided with the most ferocious senatorial political competition 2 , and villas and outward signs of Greek culture were new tools of political competition. "In 78 B.C. there was no finer house in Rome than that of Lepidus, but only thirty five years later it was not even in hundredth place" (Plin., NH, 36.109). But after about 30 B.C., at the end of the Civil Wars, to about A.D. 60-with the virtual end of senatorial political competition-another development takes place: the Roman elite and their artists and architects created a unified multi-media environment in their villas which unifies painting, poetry, architecture, and garden design to views of nature. Why? Villas acquire outward facing panoramic colonnades with Greco-Roman monumental "orders, " façades are punctuated by pavilions with symmetrical façade units hieratically dominated by the center (i.e., the "B-A-B" motif common to Renaissance and Baroque architecture), they abandon the Durchblick straight passage from entrance to atrium for surprising transitions between spaces (including gardens), each with independent cross-axial multiple framed views. This occurs at the same time as the dreamlike spindly architectural fantasies of the Pompeian Third Style and picturesque architectural landscape vignettes of seaside villas are invented, and poets such as Virgil and Ovid introduce Latin bucolic or pastoral poetry. 1 The author expresses great gratitude for being invited to present these ideas in this conference, and warm thanks for the special efforts to show participants the fabulous wonders of this great capital city and the region.

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