From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus

Chapter 22
The Murder of Aristobulus and Hyrcanus
1. However, fortune was avenged on Herod in his external great
successes, by raising him up domestical troubles; and he began to have wild
disorders in his family, on account of his wife, of whom he was so very fond.
For when he came to the government, he sent away her whom he had before
married when he was a private person, and who was born at Jerusalem,
whose name was Doris, and married Mariamne, the daughter of Alexander,
the son of Aristobulus; on whose account disturbances arose in his family,
and that in part very soon, but chiefly after his return from Rome. For, first
of all, he expelled Antipater the son of Doris, for the sake of his sons by
Mariamne, out of the city, and permitted him to come thither at no other
times than at the festivals. After this he slew his wife's grandfather,
Hyrcanus, when he was returned out of Parthin to him, under this pretense,
that he suspected him of plotting against him. Now this Hyrcanus had been
carried captive to Barzapharnes, when he overran Syria; but those of his own
country beyond Euphrates were desirous he would stay with them, and this
out of the commiseration they had for his condition; and had he complied
with their desires, when they exhorted him not to go over the river to lierod,
he had not perished: but the marriage of his granddaughter [to Herod] was
his temptation; for as he relied upon him, and was over-fond of his own
country, he came back to it. Herod's provocation was this, - not that
Hyrcanus made any attempt to gain the kingdom, but that it was fitter for
him to be their king than for Herod.
2. Now of the five children which Herod had by Mariamne, two of them
were daughters, and three were sons; and the youngest of these sons was
educated at Rome, and there died; but the two eldest he treated as those of
royal blood, on account of the nobility of their mother, and because they
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