first wife of
Herod
mother of
Antipater III.
Daughter of Hellenized
Idumean
aristocrats living in
Jerusalem whom
Herod married while he was still governor of
Galilee (ca. 47
BCE). About a decade later Herod dismissed
her along with their son so he could marry the Hasmonean
heiress, Mariamne.
But Doris returned when Herod recalled Antipater to try to
humble his sons by Mariamne (17 BCE). Yet
she probably carried a grudge for her earlier treatment. For
while she benefitted from the rise of Antipater to be Herod's
co-ruler, she was intimately involved in & may even have
motivated Antipater's plots, not just against Mariamne's sons
but against Herod himself. For even before Herod ordered
Antipater's execution he publicly shamed Doris by stripping her
of all her finery & banishing her permanently.
References:
Josephus, Antiquities
14.300,
17.68.
_____,
War
1.240,
431,
590.
Other resources online:
Perspective
on the World of Jesus 