Herodias
the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
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Below this again is the Dance of Herodias, the first of these frescoes to be uncovered and ruined in the process.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa | Edward HuttonBut he repudiated the daughter of Aretas in order to marry Herodias and so set the Arabians against him.
According to the earliest authority, he seems to have imprisoned John to save him from the vengeance of Herodias.
Tradition tells us that Herodias ordered the headless trunk to be flung out over the battlements for dogs and vultures to devour.
Oscar Wilde | Leonard Cresswell InglebyThe traditional death of the "dancing daughter of Herodias" is thus given by Nicephorus.
Oscar Wilde | Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
British Dictionary definitions for Herodias
/ (hɛˈrəʊdɪˌæs) /
?14 bc –?40 ad, niece and wife of Herod Antipas and mother of Salome, whom she persuaded to ask for the head of John the Baptist. Her ambition led to the banishment of her husband
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