Julia Berenice in a new Prime series

TELEVISION: Meet ancient Rome’s real life Jewish princess: Berenice, star of new TV series Those About to Die. She was the real-life Jewish queen who fell for the Roman who destroyed Jerusalem – and now Berenice is the central figure in a blockbuster new TV series (Nicole Lampert, Jewish Chronicle).

The series opens on Prime Video on 19 July. If it is anything like as well researched as this article, it should be good.

For PaleoJudaica posts on or involving Julia Berenice (Berenike), sister of Herod Agrippa II and lover of the Emperor Titus, start here and follow the links. As noted there, Brill published a biography of her by Tal Ilan a couple of years ago.

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