The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Antipater
	Setting
	The Maccabees
	The Essenes
	Antipater in the Maccabean Hegemony
2. Herod’s Debut
	Caesar and Antipater in the Conquest of Egypt
	Caesar’s Man in Judea
	Jerusalem, Religious Politics, and the Sanhedrin
	Herod’s Campaign in Galilee
	Hybris
3. King Herod
	Death, Revenge, and the Parthian Threat
	Theoretical Monarch
	King of the Jews
4. Mariamme
	Marital and Priestly Strategies
	Cleopatra
	Octavian and the Imperial Transition
	A Time to Build and a Time to Tear Down
5. Archelaus
	Introduction
	Archelaus’s Play for Power
	Imperial Intervention
	The End of Archelaus and the Sadducees’ Opportunity
6. Antipas, Herodias, and Philip
	Salvaging the Dynasty: Antipas and Philip
	Antipas’s Tiberian Breakout
	Executing John the Baptist
	Pontius Pilate, Jesus, and Antipas’s Ambitions
7. Agrippa I
	Agrippa’s Revenge
	The Edict of Caligula
	The Claudian Settlement and Agrippa’s Glory
	After Agrippa
8. Bereniké and Agrippa II
	The Queen
	The Neronian Opportunity, Confrontations in Jerusalem
	Open War
	Defeat and the Last Herodian Meteorite
Epilogue
Chronology
Dramatis personae
Notes
Bibliography of Sources
Index of Historical Figures
Index of Scholars