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Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ and Emperor Hadrian

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    Part One : “… a mirror image” by   Damien F. Mackey       “Hadrian, revisits the actions of [the] predecessor Antiochus IV Epiphanes and sets up a Temple of Jupiter on the Temple mount , ordering circumcision to cease …”.         Hadrian “a mirror image” of Antiochus Epiphanes   That, at least, is how Anthony R. Birley has described the emperor Hadrian in his book, Hadrian, The Restless Emperor (p. 228): https://books.google.com.au/books?id=InbF_FY4PtAC&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=hadria   The influence on Hadrian's thinking of the first and most   famous bearer of that name , Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria, had already been seen at Athens. It had , after all , been that king who had revived and gone a long way to completing the construction of the Olympieion. He too , like Hadrian , had promoted the cult of Zeus Olympios. There are various other aspects of the character and policies of