Antiquity
Destruction of the Temple and the city
70·Jérusalem
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captives sold, prisoners killed in the games of Caesarea and Berytos
The siege of Jerusalem by Titus ended with the burning of the Temple, on the ninth of the month of Av according to the rabbinic tradition, followed by the systematic destruction of the upper city. The famine within the walls and the crucifixions before them had preceded the final assault.
The survivors were sorted: some killed on the spot, others sent to the mines of Egypt, still others reserved for the spectacles of Caesarea Maritima, Berytos and Rome, where they were thrown to the beasts or forced to kill one another. The figure of the captives given by Flavius Josèphe is that of a partial witness, but the scale of the ruin has never been contested: the city ceased to exist as a Jewish city.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Land of Israel
- Country :
- Terre d'Israël
Flavius Josèphe, Guerre des Juifs ; Talmud de Babylone, traité Gittin ; Dion Cassius.