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Herod (Aramaic pronunciation Hee-rod) is a name used of several kings belonging to the Herodian Dynasty
Herodian Dynasty

The Herodian Dynasty was a Jewish dynasty of Idumea descent, who ruled Iudaea Province between 37 BC - AD 92....
 of Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 Iudaea Province
Iudaea Province

Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
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Herod (Aramaic pronunciation Hee-rod) is a name used of several kings belonging to the Herodian Dynasty
Herodian Dynasty

The Herodian Dynasty was a Jewish dynasty of Idumea descent, who ruled Iudaea Province between 37 BC - AD 92....
 of Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 Iudaea Province
Iudaea Province

Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
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  • Herod the Great
    Herod the Great

    Herod , also known as Herod I or Herod the Great , was a Roman Empire client state of Israel. Herod is known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and other parts of the ancient world, including the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as Herod's Temple....
     (c. 74-4 BC), king of Judea who reconstructed the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
  • Herod Archelaus
    Herod Archelaus

    Herod Archelaus was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Edom from 4 BC to 6 AD. He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, the brother of Herod Antipas, and the half-brother of Herod Philip I....
     (23 BC-c. AD 18), ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea
  • Herod Antipas
    Herod Antipas

    Herod Antipas After inheriting his territories when the kingdom of his father Herod the Great was divided upon his death in 4 BC, Antipas ruled them as a client state of the Roman Empire....
     (20 BC-c. AD 40), tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea, who was described in the New Testament as ordering John the Baptist's death and as mocking Jesus
  • Herod Agrippa I
    Agrippa I

    Agrippa I also called the Great , King of the Jews, was the grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice . His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, and he is the king named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles, in the Bible, "Herod " ....
     (c. 10 BC-AD 44), king of Judea, called "Herod" in the Acts of the Apostles
  • Herod II, sometimes called Herod Philip I, father of Salome
    Salome

    Salome or Salom? the Daughter of Herodias , is known from the New Testament in connection with the death of John the Baptist. Another source from Antiquity, Flavius Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, gives her name and some detail about her family relations....
  • Herod Philip II
    Herod Philip II

    Herod Philip II, or Philip the Tetrarch, was son of Herod the Great and his fifth wife Cleopatra of Jerusalem and half-brother of Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus....
     (4 BC-AD 34), tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis
  • Herod of Chalcis
    Herod of Chalcis

    File:Herold_of_Chalcis_coin_showing_Herod_of_Chalcis_with_brother_Agrippa_of_Judaea_crowning_Roman_Emperor_Claudius_I.jpgHerod of Chalcis , was a son of Aristobulus IV, and the grandson of Herod the Great, Roman client king of Iudaea Province....
    , also known as Herod III, king of Chalcis (AD 41-48)
  • Herod Agrippa II
    Agrippa II

    Agrippa II , son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great, thus last of the Herodians....
     (AD 27-100), tetrarch of Chalcis who was described in Acts of the Apostles as "King Agrippa" before whom Paul of Tarsus defended himself


  • Herodes Atticus
    Herodes Atticus

    Herodes Atticus , also known by his Ancient Rome name, Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes Marathonios was a Greeks rhetorician, notable as a proponent of Philostratus' Second Sophistic, a pseudo-revival of classical Greek culture....


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  • Hérode et Mariamne
    Hérode et Mariamne

    H?rode et Mariamne or Mariamne is a 1724 tragedy by Voltaire, set in Jerusalem. It was premiered with Adrienne Lecouvreur as Mariamne, Baron as Herod and Duclos as Salome, but had to be withdrawn after just one performance when the audience gave it a critical reception....
    , a tragedy
    Tragedy

    Tragedy is a form of The arts based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific Poetic tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western culture....
    , by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
  • Herod (band)
    Herod (band)

    Herod is a heavy metal music band from the United States. The band was formed in 2000 in Buffalo, New York by Jesse Benker and Mike Jeffers. Their first major release was Execution Protocol in early 2002 through Too Damn Hype Records....
    , the name of a heavy metal band from the United States
  • Herod
    Herod (horse)

    Herod was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is one of the 4 foundation lines of the classic Thoroughbred, along with Matchem, Eclipse , and his own son Highflyer ...
    , a thoroughbred racehorse
  • A herred is an administrative area in Denmark and Norway
  • Herod (World of Warcraft), Champion of the Scarlet Crusade and the final boss of the Scarlet Armory segment of Scarlet Monastery in the popular MMORPG
    MMORPG

    A massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of computer role-playing games in which a large number of player interact with one another in a virtual world....
     World of Warcraft
    World of Warcraft

    World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game . It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994 in video gaming....
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  • IAI Herod - a hunter-killer
    Hunter-killer

    Hunter-Killer is a military term traditionally used to describe an entity in which the roles of "sensor" and "shooter" are separated. However, in the case of unmanned aerial vehicles, it means the opposite: an aircraft system designed to find, identify and kill its target; the first purpose-designed hunter-killer Unmanned aerial vehicle is...
     unmanned aerial vehicle
    Unmanned aerial vehicle

    File:MQ-9 Reaper in flight .jpgAn unmanned aerial vehicle is an unpiloted aircraft. UAVs come in two varieties: some are controlled from a remote location, and others fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans using more complex dynamic automation systems....