Titus and Berenice (Aleksander's Antiquities, #5)

For five years, the fate of the last Jewish polity of the ancient world hung on the outcome of a romance

A romance between the middle-aged, thrice-divorced Jewish queen, Berenice, and the youthful son of the first emperor of the Flavian dynasty.

This volume, the first in a series of three on the subject of the Herodian Dynasty, describes the events of AD 66-69:
--the outbreak of the First Jewish War
--Nero's artistic tour of Greece
--his overthrow and death by suicide
--the outbreak of the Roman ...