Herodias

[ huh-roh-dee-uhs ]

noun

1. the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.

Herodias

/ hɛˈrəʊdɪˌæs /

noun

1. Herodias?14 bc?40 adFJudaeanMISC: wife of Herod Antipas ?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

Example Sentences

Others followed, including Azucena in “Il trovatore” and Dame Quickly in “Falstaff” by Giuseppe Verdi, Herodias in “Salome” by Richard Strauss, Mother Goose in “The Rake’s Progress” by Igor Stravisnky and many others.

From Seattle Times

Moore’s lifeless severed head is shown, like John the Baptist, poised atop a silver platter held by Herodias, her torso lavishly attired in garments of purest white.

From Los Angeles Times

He wears a ring symbolic of his power, but Herodias, his wife, took it from his hand while he quivered at Salome’s demand for the Baptist’s head on a silver platter.

From The New Yorker

A Clergyman was discoursing to his Sunday School children on two Scripture lessons, 1st, the “Choice of Herodias’s daughter,” and 2nd, “Solomon’s choice.”

From Slate

Klingsor, who has castrated himself, is accompanied by a possessed shape-shifter, Kundry, a reincarnation of the cursed Jewish princess Herodias.

From Literature