For five years, the fate of the last Jewish polity of the ancient world hung on the outcome of a romance: 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...
A romance between the middle-aged, thrice-divorced Jewish queen, Berenice, and the youthful son of the first emperor of the Flavian dynasty.