Berenice_(daughter_of_Mariamne)

Berenice (daughter of Mariamne)

Berenice (daughter of Mariamne)

Member of the Herodian dyansty during the 1st century AD


Berenice was the daughter of Mariamne, daughter of Herod Agrippa, and Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes,[1] son of Chelcias (maybe Hilkiya in Hebrew, who was a friend and an officer at the court).[2] She was born sometime after 50 CE. After her parents had divorced, she lived with her mother in Alexandria.[3]


Notes

  1. Ciecieląg Jerzy, Polityczne dziedzictwo Heroda Wielkiego. Palestyna w epoce rzymsko-herodiańskiej, Kraków 2002, s. 76-78.
  2. Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus, Book XIX chap.8 and 9
  3. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, xx.7.1

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