Background
Hyrcanus was born and raised in Rome.
Hyrcanus was born and raised in Rome.
Hyrcanus was the only child to have survived as his two other brothers had died. Jonathon may have been Alexander Jannaeus, the High Priest and Hasmonean ruler who governed Judea from 103 British Columbia-76 British Columbia. The name Hyrcanus means one from Hyrcania. The Hyrcania Sea was the ancient Greek name for the Caspian Sea.
Hyrcanus’ name reveals his father’s favourite monarch from the Hasmonean Dynasty and his lineage from the dynasty.
Perhaps his father, named him in honor of the Herodian Prince Julius Hyrcanus, one of the sons Herod of Chalcis and Berenice. With his father’s fourth wife, he had two half-brothers: Flavius Justus and Flavius Simonides Agrippa.
Hyrcanus was a contemporary of the ruling Flavian dynasty and Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire. He was alive when Josephus was compiling his historical writings and when his father died about 100.
Little is known on his remaining life.
