Pheroras

Pheroras (Greek: Φερώρας; c. 68 BCc. 5 BC), probably born in Marissa (Idumea), was the youngest son of Antipater I and his wife Cypros and younger brother of Herod the Great.

His first marriage was to Salampsio (the daughter of Mariamne I and his elder brother Herod the Great); his second was to a "slave girl", by whose "charms" he was "overcome".[1]

Pheroras was a close comrade-in-arms of his brother Herod, on whose commission he restored the fortress of Alexandreum to the north of Jericho.[2]

References

  1. Jos. BI 1,24,5; Jos. Ant. Iud. 16,7,3
  2. Jos. Ant. Iud. 15,11,5; Jos. BI 1 online
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