Are they and welcome to Emperor's of Rome, a podcast about the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me as always about the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me as always is Dr.

Rianna Evans, a lecturer in ancient Mediterranean studies at Latrobe University.

This is episode L-V-I. May his bones rot. In 132C. E.

Hadrian faced a revolt from Judea with political and religious tension causing the Jews to rise up against him.

Faced with losing a province and face in his own empire, Hadrian's actions will greatly influence the course of Jewish history.

That's a nice way of putting it.

Now for the not so nice, here's Rianna Evans.

Back in 70 CE, Vespasian and his son Titus had destroyed a lot of the city of Jerusalem, including really

important sections of it like the temple and the archive.

And of course Titus had then had a magnificent triumph.

The Arch of Titus had been built in commemoration of that

to celebrate this Roman victory.

So the city was in a certain amount of disarray. and probably hadn't been completely rebuilt at the time of a revolt

at the time of a revolt under the Emperor Trajan. So coming now into the second century, towards the end of Trajan's reign,

when he's really trying to sort out what he would regard as the eastern part of his empire,

and he's building on it enlarging it but much of this is spoiled by local

revolts and one of those local revolts is in Judea and was put down in 117 by Trajan right at the end of his life as part of his attempt to really maintain his recent gains and avoid complete dissolution of the Eastern Empire. But I guess things are left fairly

unsettled in that region in general when Hadrian comes to power.

Hmm, so it sounds like in some respects there would have just been an endless trail of conflict from go to

ways.

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