lethargic_man | Antiquities of the Jews, fit the twenty-seventh

XIII.11.308 reveals that Queen Shlomtzion (probably best known to my Jewish readers by having a street in Jerusalem named after her, and to my non-Jewish readers by her Greek name, Salome Alexandra) took part in the plot to have her own son killed:

Aristobulus yielded to these imputations, but took care both that his brother should not suspect him, and that he himself might not run the hazard of his own safety; so he ordered his guards to lie in a certain place that was under ground, and dark; (he himself then lying sick in the tower which was called Antonia^*); and he commanded them, that in case Antigonus came in to him unarmed, they should not touch any body, but if armed, they should kill him; yet did he send to Antigonus, and desired that he would come unarmed; but the queen, and those that joined with her in the plot against Antigonus, persuaded the messenger to tell him the direct contrary: how his brother had heard that he had made himself a fine suit of armour for war, and desired him to come to him in that armour, that he might see how fine it was. So Antigonus suspecting no treachery, but depending on the good-will of his brother, came to Aristobulus armed, as he used to be, with his entire armour, in order to show it to him; but when he was come to a place which was called Strato's Tower, where the passage happened to be exceeding dark, the guards slew him; which death of his demonstrates that nothing is stronger than envy and calumny, and that nothing does more certainly divide the good-will and natural affections of men than those passions.

* Or would, at any rate, later be rebuilt and named after Mark Antony; the name here is an anachronism.

As the following passage reveals, this is not the town called Strato's Tower, but another place with the same name. Who's Tower, I hear you ask. This is the town you will be familiar with (if you're familiar at all with Israel) under the name Caesarea, the name it was given when it was refounded on a much larger scale by Herod the Great. I was then intrigued to know how far back the town went under it's old name, because I had never heard of it. The Jewish Encyclopaedia says:

Only the old name, "Strato's Tower," gives any clue to the earliest history of Cæsarea. Renan (Mission de la Phénicie, p. 790) and, after him, Hildesheimer connect Strato with the Phenician name Astarte. But D. Oppenheim and Neubauer have demonstrated the probability that "Strato" was the name of a person, indeed, that of the founder of the city; and it is a fact that Strato is named as such in Justinian's Novellæ (103 pref.). Stark (Gaza, p, 451) thinks that the Ptolemies founded Strato's Tower; but Schürer is of opinion that it was founded by the Sidonians in Persian times. In the fourth century B.C. there were two kings of Sidon by the name of Strato, one of whom probably founded the fort Strato's Tower. The first geographical writer who mentions the "Tower" is Artemidorus (about 100 B.C.; Stephen of Byzantium, s.v. Δῶρος). About the same time, Aristobulus I. caused his brother Antigonus to be murdered there (Ant xiii. 11, § 2 [309]). The "tyrant" Zoilus, who had usurped the government of Strato's Tower and of Dora, and had made common cause with the Cyprian king Ptolemy Lathyrus, drove Alexander Jannæus from the country, which he apportioned among the Jews (Ant. xiii. 12, §§ 2-4).

Caesarea would later go on to play a major role in the start of the First Jewish Revolt, which would lead to the Destruction of the Temple and the partial exile of the Jews from their land, due to the fact the town was originally Syrian (meaning: Seleucid Greek), and Jews were only later colonists there.

I talked beforehand about how the Hasmoneans started out as anti-Hellenic fundamentalists, but within three generations their leader had a Greek name. Josephus says of Aristobulus I, one generation later (XIII.11.318):