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Explanations absolutely needed. Mostly for Titus and Caracalla.
Titus's main squeeze before he became Emperor was a Jewish queen, for which reason, along with his suppression of the first Iudean Revolt, earned him little sympathy from the traditionalist Iudeans making up national mythology in the period.
Caracalla is entirely bizarre myth and legend based on the fact that he was apparently less vicious towards Jews than towards everyone else in the Empire. That's a low bar, but I see why it could lead to talk, lmao.
And then Titus became a zombie?
He gets summoned in the Babylonian Talmud, apparently, by his own nephew, who converts to Judaism.
... mythology can be weird, lmao.
Looks like both it and the tick story are in Gitten, which has an extended section on Titus.