Of Herodian, Photius wrote “ he neither exaggerates with hyperbole nor omits anything essential ; in short, in all the virtues of historiography there are few men who are his superior .” Zosimus used him as a source as did John of Antioch when writing his World Chronicle.

An English translator of the Roman History wrote in 1705 that Herodian " still preserves a Majesty suitable to the Greatness of the Subject which he treats, and has something in him so pleasing and comely, as perhaps all the Art and Labour of other Men can never reach .” Altheim commended Herodian ’ s wide vision of the period, and F. A.

Herodian and Dio wrote only in passing of the campaign but describe the Caledonians ceding territory to Rome as being the result.

Herodian writes of that stone:

Herodian also relates that Elagabalus forced senators to watch while he danced around his deity's altar to the sound of drums and cymbals, and at each summer solstice celebrated a great festival, popular with the masses because of food distributions, during which he placed the holy stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:

He stated of the Herodian temple, " Not one stone will be left on another ; every one of them will be thrown down " – John 4: 21, Luke 21: 6.

If the panegyric detailing the ceremony implied that the true center of the Empire was not Rome, but where the Emperor sat ("... the capital of the Empire appeared to be there, where the two emperors met "), it simply echoed what had already been stated by the historian Herodian in the early third century: " Rome is where the emperor is ".

This is attested by Cassius Dio, Herodian and the Augustan History.

Herod is a name used of several kings belonging to the Herodian Dynasty of the Roman province of Judaea:

The success of mass-conversions is however questionable, as most groups retained their tribal separations and mostly turned Hellenistic or Christian, with Edomites perhaps being the only exception to merge into the Jewish society under Herodian dinasty and in the following period of Jewish-Roman Wars.

Situated beneath a large rectangular Herodian era structure, the series of subterranean chambers is located in the heart of Hebron's old city in the Judean hills.

These caves had only been rediscovered in 1119 CE by a monk named Arnoul, who had noticed a draught in the area near where the mihrab is at present, and had removed the flagstones and found a room lined with Herodian masonry.

Her family constituted part of what is known as the Herodian Dynasty, who ruled the Judaea Province between 39 BC and 92.

Priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of Herodian and Apollonius.

Some scholars have postulated that Abellio is the same name as Apollo, who in Crete and elsewhere was called Abelios ( Greek ), and by the Italians and some Dorians Apello, and that the deity is the same as the Gallic Apollo mentioned by Caesar, and also the same as the Belis or Belenus mentioned by Tertullian and Herodian.

His ancestors and family had social ties and connections to the Priesthood in Judea ; Hasmonean Dynasty ; Herodian Dynasty and Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, though it is likely that Philo only visited the Temple in Jerusalem once in his lifetime.

The story is most likely apocryphal however, with Herodian attributing a similar tale to the assassination of Commodus.

* According to the History of Free Masonry, Volume 6, Heredia is a name derived from Herod the Great and his Herodian Kingdom.

Historic Locations: The ancient Roman Empire built the Herodian Kingdom, which is traced to the origin of heredia.

One notion is that Herodian must have finished writing around 240, which would have made him about 70.

He mentions, “ My aim is to write a systematic account of the events within a period of seventy years, covering the reigns of several emperors, of which I have personal experience .” ( 2. 15. 7 ) This reaffirms the notion that Herodian was about 70 years of age when this was written and that the actions did indeed occur during his lifetime.

Herodian ’ s descriptions of Gordian III are less than flattering, and it is doubtful that he released such a negative review of a current emperor.

If Herodian did attend the games of Commodus, he must have been at least 14 at the time, which is to say that he was born in 178 at the latest.

The nationality of Herodian is also unclear.

The popular speculation, however, is that Herodian was from Antioch.

In short, unless an inscription is discovered, Herodian ’ s place of birth will never be known for certain.

Neither the occupation nor the social status of Herodian is known.

The Babylonian Jewish community, though maintaining permanent ties with the Hasmonean and later Herodian kingdoms, evolved into a separate Jewish community, which during the Talmudic period assembled its own practices ( the Babylonian Talmud, slightly differing from the Jerusalem Talmud.

Represented at its height by rhetoricians such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and grammarians such as Herodian and Phrynichus Arabius at Alexandria, this tendency prevailed from the 1st century BC onward, and with the force of an ecclesiastical dogma controlled all subsequent Greek culture, even so that the living form of the Greek language, even then being transformed into modern Greek much later, was quite obscured and only occasionally found expression, chiefly in private documents, though also in popular literature.

Herodian places the date of the split occurred in 197, though there is no evidence of this distinction being formalised in inscriptions until after the death of Severus in 211.

Between 41 and 44 CE, Iudaea regained its nominal autonomy, when Herod Agrippa was made King of the Jews by the emperor Claudius, thus in a sense restoring the Herodian Dynasty, though there is no indication Iudaea ceased to be a Roman province simply because it no longer had a prefect.

According to the Mishnah and Tosefta, in the Maccabean, Herodian, and Mishnaic periods, new months were determined by the sighting of a new crescent, with two eye witnesses required to testify to the Sanhedrin to having seen the new lunar crescent at sunset.

The rock-cut tombs of a Herodian and Hasmonean era cemetery lie in the lowest part of the cliffs between Nuseib al-Aweishireh and Jebel Quruntul in Jericho and were used between 100 BCE and 68 CE.

The first two books, in Greek, with the translation of Leunclavius, were printed by H. Stephanus, in his edition of Herodian ( Paris, 1581 ).

In the Herodian period, the upper of wall were thick and served as the other wall of the double colonnade of the plateau.

His witty, abusive style appears for example in this quote by Herodian, who however was mainly interested in its linguistic aspects ( many of the extant verses were preserved for us by lexicographers and grammarians interested in rare words ):

The later Herodian rulers Agrippa I and Agrippa II both had Hasmonean blood, as Agrippa I's father was Aristobulus IV, son of Herod by Mariamne I, but they were not direct male descendants, unless Herod was understood as a Hasmonean as per the following synthesis:

Iotapa along with her family and paternal relatives were among the last known descendants of the Herodian Dynasty.

Photius ( Codex 99 ) gives an outline of the contents of this work and passes a flattering encomium on the style of Herodian, which he describes as clear, vigorous, agreeable, and preserving a happy medium between an utter disregard of art and elegance and a profuse employment of the artifices and prettinesses which were known under the name of Atticism, as well as between boldness and bombast.

He was not from Italy, for he says the Alps were bigger than anything “ in our part of the world .” ( 2. 11. 8 ) It has been suggested that Herodian was from Alexandria since he placed such a large emphasis on Caracalla's massacre of this city and its inhabitants.

These bandits are best understood as a peasant group whose targets were local elites ( both Hasmonean and Herodian ) rather than Rome.

They were also known as Herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd century manuscript by Herodian.