What Does Herodias Mean?

Heriodas was a princess of the Jews in the reign of the Herodian Dynasty. She was born of Aristobolus IV. Aristobulus was one of the two male siblings of Herod the Great and the Hasmonean princess Mariamne I. Her tendency was Berenice, a offspring of Herod's sister, the shrewdness Salome I, and of Costabarus, regulator of Idumea. She had three brothers, namely Herod III, king of Chalcis, Herod Agrippa, emperor of Judea and Aristobulus V, and single sister, Mariamne III, who might have been the original wife of her uncle, Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Judea.

Mark and Matthew, in their Gospels, Herodias stages a foremost role in John the Baptist's capital punishment, encompassing the forecaster beheaded through a Machiavellian system using her daughter to ballet before Antipas and his gathering guests and to ask for the skull of the Baptist as a remuneration.

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