King Herod

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the infamous figures from the whole of history. So what do we know about this ancient near eastern ruler, who in his lifetime had contacts with a series of ‘goliath’ figures from the ancient Mediterranean World: from Caesar to Cleopatra and from Marc Antony to Augustus. To talk about King Herod, with a particular focus on the material and meaning of his monumental tomb at Herodium, Tristan was re-joined by Holy Land archaeologist Dr Jodi Magness. A wonderful speaker, Jodi has previously been on the podcast to talk all about the Siege of Masada and Jewish burial at the time of Jesus.

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:00.6	folks, Dan Snow here.
0:01.6	I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit.
0:06.1	I'd love for you to be there.
0:07.5	Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London,
0:10.4	in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years.
0:14.1	You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes.
0:17.6	Look forward to seeing you there.
0:28.9	Everybody welcome to Dan Snow's history hit. Christmas is nearly upon us, folks,
0:33.9	and we've got a seasonal, a seasonal episode of one of our sibling podcast today, King Herod.
0:36.6	We all know about King Herod. He features in the Gospel of Matthew.
0:38.5	King Herod, air quotes, the great of Judea. I think that might be a self-bustowed nickname there. Epithet, the Great.
0:46.2	Anyway, he's one of the most infamous figures to the whole of history, thanks to his role in the
0:51.0	Jesus being born story. But what do we actually know about this ancient Near Eastern ruler
0:55.5	who lived at the same time as some truly gigantic figures from our history?
1:00.4	People like Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Augustus.
1:05.1	We've all heard of King Herod, but we don't really know anything about him.
1:08.2	Let's fix that right now.
1:10.2	You're going to fix that with the Tristorian,
1:12.2	Tristan Hughes, as ever, bring us his ancients upon, the breakout podcast success of 2021.
1:17.9	He is going to talk about King Herodium's monumental tomb at Herodium. He's going to talk about
1:23.1	the man himself. What are the sources we have for his life? And he's going to be talking to the
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