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Mariamne II was the third wife of Herod the Great.She was the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest.Josephus recounts their wedding thus: [1] There was one Simon, a citizen of Jerusalem, the son of one Boethus, a citizen of Alexandria, and a priest of great note there; this man had a daughter, who was esteemed the most beautiful woman of that time; and when the people of Jerusalem began to ...
Some time after the death of her father in 7 BCE, Mariamne III was betrothed to Antipater II, her uncle and the eldest son of Herod the Great. After Antipater's execution in 4 BCE, an anonymous Mariamne was the first wife of another uncle, Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Judea but nothing permits to know if she was Mariamne III. [1]
Herod left his young wife in the care of his uncle Joseph, along with the instructions that if Antony should kill him, Joseph should kill Mariamne. Herod believed his wife to be so beautiful that she would become engaged to another man after his death and that his great passion for Mariamne prevented him from enduring a separation from her ...
Mariamne (1st century) (fl. early 1st century CE), wife of Herod of Chalcis; Mariamne (daughter of Herod Agrippa) (born 34 or 35), a daughter of Herod Agrippa. Mariamne the sister of the Apostle Philip; Olivia Mariamne Devenish (1771–1814), British socialite; Mariamne Johnes (1784-1811), daughter of Thomas Johnes, Hafod, Wales
Herodias' second husband was Herod Antipas (born before 20 BC; died after 39 AD) half-brother of Herod II (her first husband). He is best known today for his role in events that led to the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth. Antipas divorced his first wife Phasaelis, the daughter of King Aretas IV of Nabatea, in
Mariamne (third wife of Herod) Mariamne I This page was last edited on 21 December 2023, at 13:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
She first married Joseph I (uncle of Herod the Great) [], whom she accused of familiarities with Mariamne I, wife of Herod, and thus procured his death. [2] She had three children by her second husband Costobarus, Antipater IV (who married Cypros II, Herod's daughter by Mariamne I), Berenice (who married first Aristobulus IV, Herod's son by the same mother, and second Theudion, brother of ...
Hérode et Mariamne or Mariamne is a 1724 tragedy by Voltaire.Adapted from the writings of the historian Josephus, it is set in ancient Jerusalem, and portrays the tragic death of Mariamne at the hands of her jealous husband, Herod the Great, king of Judea, who suspects her of an intrigue with Varus, the Roman governor of Syria.