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Chapter 4 - Queen Salome Alexandra

Chapter 4 - Queen Salome Alexandra

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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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