Malthace
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Malthace was a Samaritan
woman who lived in the latter half of the 1st century BC. She was one of the wives of Herod the Great
and the mother by Herod of Herod Antipas
, Archelaus
and a daughter Olympias
.
She died 4 BC at Rome, while her sons Archelaus and Antipas were disputing the will of their father before the emperor August.
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Samaritan
The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, an Abrahamic religion closely related to Judaism...
woman who lived in the latter half of the 1st century BC. She was one of the wives of Herod the Great
Herod the Great
Herod , also known as Herod the Great , was a Roman client king of Judea. His epithet of "the Great" is widely disputed as he is described as "a madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis." He is also known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and elsewhere, including his...
and the mother by Herod of Herod Antipas
Herod Antipas
Herod Antipater , known by the nickname Antipas, was a 1st-century AD ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch...
, Archelaus
Archelaus
- Historical persons :*Archelaus , pupil of Anaxagoras, 5th century BC*Archelaus I of Macedon, reigned 413-399 BC*Archelaus , fought in the First, Second and Third Mithridatic Wars...
and a daughter Olympias
Olympias (Herodian)
Olympias the Herodian was the daughter of Herod the Great and wife Malthace, a Samaritan. This was Herod's fourth marriage. Olympias' better known brothers were Herod Archelaus and Herod Antipas. She married Herod's nephew Joseph ben Joseph and bore him a daughter, Mariamne, who was married to...
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She died 4 BC at Rome, while her sons Archelaus and Antipas were disputing the will of their father before the emperor August.
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