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Herodias was a Jewish princess famous for her beauty and love affaires, daughter of Aristobulus III of Judea.

She was first the wife of Herod Philip, her uncle. Later Herod Antipas, brother of Herod Philip, fell in love with her, rejecting his own wife and commanding his brother that gave Herodias to him. Since that moment she became the lover of her other uncle, Herod Antipas. As John the Baptist had preached condemning this union, she got, by means of her daughter

Herodias in fiction

H?odiade, opera by Jules Massenet.

See also