quickly dismissed amidst a number of popular measures of Titus to restore his reputation with the populace. It is possible that he intended to send for her at a more convenient time. However, after reigning barely two years as emperor, he suddenly died on 13 September 81. It is not known what happened to Berenice after her final dismissal from Rome. Her brother Agrippa II died around 92, and with him the Herodian Dynasty rule over Judaea came to an end. Berenice in the arts From the 17th century to contemporary times, there has been a long tradition of works of art (novels, dramas, operas, etc.) devoted to or featuring Berenice and especially her affair with the Roman Emperor Titus. The list includes: Lettres de Bérénice à Titus (1642), a French novel by Madeleine de Scudéry Bérénice (1648–50), a French novel by Jean Regnauld de Segrais Tite (1660), a French drama by Jean Magnon Il Tito (1666), an Italian opera by Antonio Cesti (mus.) and Nicola Beregani (libr.) Bérénice (1670), a French drama by Jean Racine Tite et Bérénice (1670), a French drama by Pierre Corneille Titus and Berenice (1676), an English drama by Thomas Otway Tito e Berenice (1714), an Italian opera by Antonio Caldara (mus.) and Carlo Sigismondo Capace (libr.) Berenice (1725), an Italian opera by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (mus.) and Benedetto Pasqualigo (libr.). Also set to music by Niccolò Vito Piccinni (1766) La clemenza di Tito (1734), an Italian opera by librettist Pietro Metastasio, set to music by over 40 composers, including Antonio Caldara (1734) Johann Adolph Hasse (1735) Giuseppe Arena (1738) Francesco Corradini (1747) Christoph Willibald Gluck (1752) Andrea Adolfati (1753) Niccolò Jommelli (1753) Ignaz Holzbauer (1757) Vincenzo Legrezio Ciampi (1757) Gioacchino Cocchi (1760) Marcello Bernardini (1768) Andrea Bernasconi (1768) Pasquale Anfossi (1769) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (La clemenza di Tito, 1791) Tito e Berenice (1776), an Italian opera by Raimondo Mei (mus.) and Carlo Giuseppe Lanfranchi-Rossi (libr.) Tito e Berenice (1782), a ballet by Paolino Franchi (chor.) Tito; o, La partenza di Berenice (1790), a ballet by Domenico Maria Gaspero Angiolini (mus. and chor.) Tito e Berenice (1793), an Italian opera by Sebastiano Nasolini (mus.) and Giuseppe Maria Foppa (libr.) Tito che abbandona Berenice (1828), a painting by Giuseppe Bezzuoli Titus et Bérénice (1860), a French opera by Leon-Gustave-Cyprien Gastinel (mus.) and Édouard Fournier (libr.) Daniel Deronda (1876), George Eliot's final novel, in which a set