Cypros (daughter of Herod)

Cypros (fl. 1st century CE) was a member of the Herodian dynasty.^[1] She was a daughter of Herod the Great, born to one of his wives, Mariamne I.^[2] Mariamne I also bore another daughter, Cypros' sister, named Salampsio.^[1]

Cypros married Antipater IV, her first cousin (he was the son of Herod the Great's sister, Salome I).^[3][4] She gave birth to a daughter, also named Cypros, who eventually married Alexas Selcias.^[2]

References

1. Richardson, Peter; Fisher, Amy Marie (2017-08-22). Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-67091-3.
2. Josephus, Flavius (1999). The New Complete Works of Josephus. Kregel Academic. ISBN 978-0-8254-2924-8.
3. Rosenfeld, Ben-Zion (1988). "The 'Boundary of Gezer' Inscriptions and the History of Gezer at the End of the Second Temple Period". Israel Exploration Journal. 38 (4): 235–245. ISSN 0021-2059. JSTOR 27926123.
4. Hanson, K.C. (November 1989). "The Herodians and Mediterranean Kinship Part 2: Marriage and Divorce". Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture. 19 (4): 142–151. doi:10.1177/014610798901900405. ISSN 0146-1079.