Ben-Hur, Part 2, Chapter 1: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. The narrative advances twenty-one years to the start of Valerius Gratus’s administration.
2. A historical account explains how Augustus exiles Archelaus and places Judea under direct Roman administration.
3. Roman control humiliates Jerusalem, while the high priest’s presence in the palace sustains hopes of Jewish self-rule.
4. Gratus replaces Hannas with Ishmael, disrupting the political arrangement that helps Rome control Judea.
5. Hannas joins the Separatists and leads a new alliance against the existing administration.
6. A month after Ishmael takes office, Gratus enters a hostile Jerusalem with additional troops.

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