Years covered: 104 - 67 BC
Marrying into the royal family is no prize, when your husband kills his own mother, and jails his siblings. Queen Salome lives in a world of deceit, and has to navigate it, alone. Meanwhile the great Seleucid Empire is in its dying days, with the War of the Antiochi ending with a whole bunch of new claimants.
Cast Of Characters
The Jews:
Queen Salome
King Aristobulus x
King Alexander Janneus x
John Hyrcanus' wife and mother to Aristobulus x
Antigonus, Son of John Hyrcanus x
Absalom, son of John Hyrcanus x
Unnamed son of John Hyrcanus
Shimon Ben Shetach ?
Hyrcanus, son of Alexander Janneus
Aristobulus, son of Alexander Janneus
Chelkias x
Ananais
The Greeks:
Antiochus VIII Callinicus x
Antiochus IX Grypus x
Cleopatra III x
Ptolemy IX x
Ptolemy X x
Zoilus, warlord of Dor ?
Heracleon x
Seleucus VI Epiphanes x
Demetrius III Eucares x
Antiochus X Eusebeus x
Philip I Philadelphus x
Cleopatra Selene x
Others:
Theodorus son of Zeno x
King Tigranes II of Armenia
Sources:
Antiquities of the Jews - Josephus
Tractate Sotah 22b - Babylonian Talmud
Tractate Sukkot 48b - The Babylonian Talmud
Tractate Berkhot 48a - The Babylonian Talmud
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