Herodias

Related to Herodias: Herod the Great, Herodotus, John the Baptist

Herodias

(hērō`dēəs): see HerodHerod,
dynasty reigning in Palestine at the time of Jesus. As a dynasty the Herods depended largely on the power of Rome. They are usually blamed for the state of virtual anarchy in Palestine at the beginning of the Christian era.

Antipater (fl. c.65 B.C.
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Herodias

lived for nineteen centuries as punishment for her crime against John the Baptist. [Fr. Lit.: Eugène Sue The Wandering Jew]

See: Punishment

Herodias

spitefully effects decapitation of John the Baptist. [N.T.: Mark 6:19–26]

See: Vengeance

Herodias

condemned to wander the world for centuries for her part in the execution of John the Baptist. [Fr. Lit.: Eugene Sue The Wandering Jew]

See: Wandering

Herodias

?14 bc--?40 ad, niece and wife of Herod Antipas and mother of Salome, whom she persuaded to ask for the head of John the Baptist. Her ambition led to the banishment of her husband

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18, Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, Archbishop of Toronto chose for his text the beheading of John the Baptist for refusing to accept Herodias as the lawful wedded wife of King Herod.

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She performs all five of the remaining roles--Salome, Herod, Herodias, soldier-guard Narraboth and Narraboth's little soldier colleague.

Salome

Dans les romans modernes le style impose son ordre et son harmonie, sauvant ainsi de la decadence reelle un monde abhorre mais fixe dans le cadre impeccable de la representation litteraire par une prose qui metamorphose la banalite grace a des mythes antiques, a une facon de voir et a des modeles de mise en scene que l'on trouve par ailleurs dans Salammbo, La Tentation de saint Antoine, Herodias. Ainsi la betise d'Emma est "empreinte d'une energie primitive" et par sa curiosite sensuelle elle "appartient a la Barbarie antique" (138).