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       This woman achieved all she wanted from her husband and posterity: her husband<hr>
awarded her death, and posterity conserved her fame. I would feel very proud if, after so many<hr>
centuries, I could in some way contribute to her memory.<hr>
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       Mariamne the Hasmonean or Mariamne I was a Hasmonean princess,<hr>
wife of Herod the Great, executed in 29 BC on his orders.<hr>
       Herod I or Herod the Great became part of the Hasmonean dynasty through<hr>
his wife Mariamne. King of Judea, he is known for his cruelty and violent way of<hr>
governing.<hr>
       The Hasmoneans were a dynasty that came to power in Judea during the<hr>
Maccabean revolt.<hr>
       The Maccabees were a Jewish family, supported by part of the Hellenized Jewish<hr>
elites, who led the resistance against the Hellenization policy practiced by<hr>
the Seleucids in the 2nd century BC. They founded the Hasmonean dynasty.<hr>
       Judea is the historical and biblical name of a mountainous region extending<hr>
today from southern Israel to part of the West Bank. Its name comes from the tribe of<hr>
Judah which comprised its territory.<hr>
       Hyrcanus II or John Hyrcanus II was a high priest in the temple of Jerusalem and a king<hr>
belonging to the Hasmonean dynasty. He played a role in the Roman takeover of the kingdom<hr>
of Judea in 63 BC, then he allowed Herod the Great to become king<hr>
in 37 BC. The latter executed him a few years later.<hr>
       Barzapharnes was a Parthian general, a people settled in the northeastern region of<hr>
Iran, in the second half of the 1st century BC. He helped Antigone II Mattathiah to seize<hr>
the throne of Judea. Through trickery, Barzapharnes imprisoned Hyrcanus II. According to the writings,<hr>
Herod fled with his family before becoming a prisoner of the Parthians.<hr>
       The Parthians are a people related to the Iranians who, after having wandered in<hr>
Scythia, settled, in the 1st millennium BC, in Parthia where they formed a warrior aristocracy.<hr>
       Aristobulus III or Jonathan Aristobulus, known in the Hebrew tradition under the<hr>
name of Jonathan, born in 53 and died in 35 BC in Jericho, is the last representative<hr>
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