1. To his astonishment, Alexander Yannaius was lauded his remaining seventeen years a hero. The patronage of Cleopatra III brought Judea enormous wealth, and upon his passing he was thought the most worthy possible successor to his father and uncles.
2. Until the assumption of his wife as liberator. Very little is known of her reign except for ten years of prosperity and peace which kept the peace between the Pharisees and Saducees by appointing a council of seventy as Judea's governing judiciary, known thereafter as the 'Sanhedrin.' According to the Book of Maccabee and Flavius Josephus, the First Liberatress was named Salome Alexandra. According to Eusebius Polymocrates, the name was Channa Yocheved. Eusebius Polymocrates labels Salome Alexandra an intriguing whore in the courts of Hyrcanus and Aristobulus who intrigues herself into marriage and philandering beds. This, however, may be the repeated lies of courtiers conspiring to obscure the truth about Salome Alexandra's reign.
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