公元73年春天,罗马第十军团终于攻破了马萨达的外墙——他们花了好几个月,硬是在悬崖上堆出一条攻城坡道。守军临时用木头和泥土筑了一道应急墙,罗马人撞不开,索性放火烧。风一度把火焰吹向罗马人自己的攻城塔——但很快就转了向。天黑时,墙已经不存在了。所有人都清楚天亮意味着什么:一万名士兵从缺口涌入。没有墙了,只剩下一个选择。
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The place
Masada
马萨达的最后一夜
960名犹太守军宁死不做罗马奴隶——用抽签决定谁来了结彼此,这是历史上最悲壮的终章
73 or 74 CE -- the final chapter of the First Jewish-Roman WarMasada
故事寓意
“自由不仅仅是没有锁链——它是一个人选择自己命运的终极权利,即使每一条路都通向黑暗。衡量一个民族的尺度,不是他们是否活了下来,而是他们是否拒绝交出那个让活着有意义的东西。”
人物
E
Eleazar ben Ya'ir -- leader of the Sicarii defendersF
Flavius Josephus -- Jewish-Roman historian, sole source of the accountT
Two unnamed women -- survivors who hid in a cistern with five childrenL
Lucius Flavius Silva -- Roman commander of the besieging Tenth LegionT
The 960 defenders -- men, women, and children of the last Jewish stronghold来源
Josephus, Flavius. Bellum Judaicum (The Jewish War), Book VII, chapters 252-406; Yadin, Yigael. Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand, 1966; Magness, Jodi. Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth, Princeton University Press, 2019; Cohen, Shaye J.D. 'Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, and the Credibility of Josephus,' Journal of Jewish Studies 33, 1982