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The
story
Around 200 BCE Jews lived as an autonomous people
in the Land of Israel, also referred to as Judea,
which at that time was controlled by the Seleucid
king of Syria. The Jewish people were originally
granted religious freedom but after their revolt
against the Hellenists, Epiphanes was angered.
Traditional view
By 175 BCE Antiochus IV Epiphanes ascended to
the Seleucid throne. At first little changed,
but under his reign, the Temple in Jerusalem was
looted, Jews were massacred, and Judaism was effectively
outlawed. In 167 BCE Antiochus ordered an altar
to Zeus erected in the Temple. As was the normal
practice of the Hellenic religion when sacrificing
to the Greek gods, pigs were sacrificed on the
altar to Zeus.