biography
pronunciation:
[herod antipas]
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| lived:
| (?–AD 39)
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| biography:
| The son of Herod the Great and ruler (tetrarch) of Galilee and Peraea (4–39), after Herod's death. An able client of the Romans, he enjoyed an especially good relationship with the Emperor Tiberius, but fell foul of his successor, Caligula, largely through the machinations of his nephew, Herod Agrippa. In the Christian tradition he looms large as the capricious murderer of John the Baptist. |
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