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Julia Berenice

Julia Berenice or Berenice of Cilicia (*28 - after 81): Herodian princess.

Relatives:

Inscription mentioning Berenice and her brother Agrippa II

Father: Herod Agrippa I
Mother: Cyprus
First husband: Marcus Julius Alexander
Second husband: Herod of Chalcis
- Children: Berenicianus and Hyrcanus
Third husband: Polemon II of Cilicia
Lover (presumed): her brother Julius Marcus Agrippa II
Lover: Titus

c.28: Born
c.41-44: Married to Marcus Julius Alexander (son of Tiberius Julius Alexander)
Short-lived marriage to her uncle Herod of Chalcis, whom she gives two sons, Berenicianus and Hyrcanus
Rumors of incestuous affair with her brother Julius Marcus Agrippa II are repressed by a third marriage, to king Polemon II of Cilicia;^note[Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 20.145.] this marriage is equally short-lived and she returns to her brother's court
c.58-60: Present at the trial of Paul of Tarsus
66: Beginning of the Jewish War; Berenice is witness of the first outbreak of violence
The emperor Nero sends general Vespasian to suppress the revolt
69: An affair with the Roman commander Titus, son of Vespasian
70: Fall of Jerusalem
75: Berenice joins Titus in Rome; her presence is not appreciated by the populace, and she is sent away
79: Death of Vespasian; accession of Titus; Berenice in Rome again; she is dismissed for the second time

Act of the Apostles 26.30
Cassius Dio, Roman History, 65.15.3
Flavius Josephus, Jewish War (2.217 220-221, 310-314, 333, 344, 402, 405, 426, 595), Jewish Antiquities, books 19 and 20 (repeats information from the Jewish War), and Life, 48, 119, 343, 355
Juvenal, Sixth Satire
Suetonius, Life of Titus, 7.1-2