Herodias Sentence Examples

But he repudiated the daughter of Aretas in order to marry Herodias and so set the Arabians against him.

Caligula was not predisposed to favour the favourites of Tiberius; and Antipas, having petitioned him for the title of king at the instigation of Herodias, was banished from his tetrarchy and (apparently) was put to death in 39.

Antipas is chiefly known to history in connexion with John the Baptist, who reproached him publicly for his marriage with Herodias.

After a brief seclusion, Herod the Tetrarch, his uncle, who had married Herodias, his sister, made him Agoranomos (Overseer of Markets) of Tiberias, and presented him with a large sum of money; but his uncle being unwilling to continue his support, Agrippa left Judea for Antioch and soon after returned to Rome, where he was welcomed by Tiberius and became the constant campanion of the emperor Gaius (Caligula), then a popular favourite.

But it is in connexion with his wife Herodias that he is best known, and it was through her that his misfortunes arose.

He was married first of all to a daughter of Aretas, the Arabian king; but, making the acquaintance of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip (not the tetrarch), during a visit to Rome, he was fascinated by her and arranged to marry her.

John the Baptist condemned his marriage with Herodias, and in consequence was put to death in the way described in the gospels and in Josephus.

Antipas was deprived of his dominions and banished to Lyons, Herodias voluntarily sharing his exile.

In his letters to his friend Mathilde Wesendonck, it appears that while he was composing Tristan he already had the inspiration of working out the identification of Kundry, the messenger of the Grail, with the temptress who, under the spell of Klingsor, seduces the knights of the Grail; and he had, moreover, thought out the impressively obscure suggestion that she was Herodias, condemned like the wandering Jew to live till the Saviour's second coming.

Quinet published a prose epic on the subject in 1833, and Eugene Sue, in his best-known work, Le Juif errant (1844), introduces the Wandering Jew in the prologues of its different sections and associates him with the legend of Herodias.

The haughty spirit of Eudoxia was inflamed by the report of a discourse commencing with the words - " Herodias is again furious; Herodias again dances; she once more demands the head of John "; and though the report was false, it sealed the doom of the archbishop. A new council was summoned, more numerous and more subservient to the wishes of Theophilus; and troops of barbarians were quartered in the city to overawe the people.

Herod Antipas had married a daughter of Aretas, but afterwards discarded her in favour of Herodias.

According to the earliest authority, he seems to have imprisoned John to save him from the vengeance of Herodias.

When Herodias's brother Agrippa was appointed king by Caligula, she was determined to see her husband attain to an equal eminence, and persuaded him, though naturally of a quiet and unambitious temperament, to make the journey to Rome to crave a crown from the emperor.

Salome was the daughter of Herodias, a woman involved with the Tetrarch of Galilee, a man named Antipas.

According to ten verses in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Herodias was a very sinful woman who had been called to task by John the Baptist.

She did as her mother, Herodias, instructed, and asked for the head of John the Baptist.

For some reason, historically the focus of the story is not on the acts of the ruler Antipas or his lover Herodias, but rather the focus and blame seems to have fallen on Salomé and the power of her dance to entrance everyone.