biography
pronunciation:
[berenees]
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| lived:
| (1st-c)
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| biography:
| The daughter of Herod Agrippa I. Four times married, she then became the mistress of Flavius Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, during the Jewish rebellion (AD 70), and followed him to Rome. She is the heroine of Racine's tragedy. She is known as the ‘Jewish Berenice’, to distinguish her from several other women of that name from the house of Ptolemy. |
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