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

Cover Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nPreface\nIntroduction\n1. Antipater\n	Setting\n	The Maccabees\n	The Essenes\n	Antipater in the Maccabean Hegemony\n2. Herod’s Debut\n	Caesar and Antipater in the Conquest of Egypt\n	Caesar’s Man in Judea\n	Jerusalem, Religious Politics, and the Sanhedrin\n	Herod’s Campaign in Galilee\n	Hybris\n3. King Herod\n	Death, Revenge, and the Parthian Threat\n	Theoretical Monarch\n	King of the Jews\n4. Mariamme\n	Marital and Priestly Strategies\n	Cleopatra\n	Octavian and the Imperial Transition\n	A Time to Build and a Time to Tear Down\n5. Archelaus\n	Introduction\n	Archelaus’s Play for Power\n	Imperial Intervention\n	The End of Archelaus and the Sadducees’ Opportunity\n6. Antipas, Herodias, and Philip\n	Salvaging the Dynasty: Antipas and Philip\n	Antipas’s Tiberian Breakout\n	Executing John the Baptist\n	Pontius Pilate, Jesus, and Antipas’s Ambitions\n7. Agrippa I\n	Agrippa’s Revenge\n	The Edict of Caligula\n	The Claudian Settlement and Agrippa’s Glory\n	After Agrippa\n8. Bereniké and Agrippa II\n	The Queen\n	The Neronian Opportunity, Confrontations in Jerusalem\n	Open War\n	Defeat and the Last Herodian Meteorite\nEpilogue\nChronology\nDramatis personae\nNotes\nBibliography of Sources\nIndex of Historical Figures\nIndex of Scholars