Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Daughter of Herodias Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, Gustave Doré, 1865; Head of St. John the Baptist, Jean-Baptiste Chatigny , 1869, The J. Paul Getty Museum; The Beheading of John the Baptist, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1869, National Gallery, London; Salome, Henri Regnault, 1870, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gustave Moreau:
Herodias (/ h ə ˈ r oʊ d i ə s /; Greek: Ἡρῳδιάς, Hērōidiás; c. 15 BC – after AD 39) was a princess of the Herodian dynasty of Judaea during the time of the Roman Empire. [1] Christian writings connect her with the execution of John the Baptist .
Herodion of Patras (also Herodian or Rodion; Greek: Ἡρωδίων, Ἡρωδιανός, Ῥοδίων) has been thought by some to have been a relative (συγγενής) of Saint Paul, as in a greeting Paul calls a Herodion a sungenēs in Romans 16:11. But Paul uses the term συγγενής (sungenēs) for fellow Jews in Romans 9:3.
Herod Antipas (Greek: Ἡρῴδης Ἀντίπας, Hērṓidēs Antípas; c. 20 BC – c. 39 AD) was a 1st-century ruler of Galilee and Perea.He bore the title of tetrarch ("ruler of a quarter") and is referred to as both "Herod the Tetrarch" [1] and "King Herod" [2] in the New Testament. [3]
Salome with John the Baptist's head, by Charles Mellin (1597–1649). Salome (/ s ə ˈ l oʊ m i, ˈ s æ l ə m eɪ /; Hebrew: שְלוֹמִית, romanized: Shlomit, related to שָׁלוֹם, Shalom "peace"; Greek: Σαλώμη), [1] also known as Salome III, [2] [note 1] was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias.
A fresco in the cycle Stories of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist by Filippo Lippi in Prato Cathedral; Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist, by Bartholomeus Strobel, early 17th century (Prado) The Feast of Herod, an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1635; Salome Dancing before Herod, Gustave Moreau, 1876
Obviously, The Crown is a work of fiction based in fact, but one particular scene has caused all kinds of drama: Prince Charles’s secret meeting with prime minister John Major.
This man once saw Herod when he was a child, and going to school, and saluted him as king of the Jews; but he, thinking that either he did not know him, or that he was in jest, put him in mind that he was but a private man; but Manahem smiled to himself, and clapped him on his backside with his hand, and said," However that be, thou wilt be ...