The fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE has been a tragedy for the Jewish people both from a historical and theological point of view. Josephus' account, for example, reports bloody and dramatic details. Its memory endures through the ages in the memory of the 9th of Av. However, some aspects of the fall of Jerusalem have changed over time. This paper analyzes some accounts of Jerusalem's fall in the Babylonian Talmud. The figure of the Roman people, which in the Babylonian Talmud assumes more nuanced contours compared to the negative judgment of the first centuries of the Christian era, is analyzed as well.