Cypros (wife of Herod Agrippa)

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Herod Agrippa I and Cypros, in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle

Cypros (1st-century) was a queen consort of Judea. She was married to king Herod Agrippa.

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Life

She was born to Phasael II and Salampsio and was the granddaughter of Phasael I, brother of Herod the Great.

She married Herod Agrippa after he returned from having spent his childhood in Rome.

By the help of Herodias, she convinced Herod Antipas to appoint Herod Agrippa as governor in Tiberias in Galilee. [1]

When Agrippa and Antipas became involved in conflict and Agrippa wished to return to Rome, Cypros successfully negotiated a loan from the banker Alexander the Alabarch of Alexandria to finance his exile. [2]

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References

  1. Flavius Josephus , Ant 18, 141
  2. Flavius Josephus, Ant 18, 159-160
  3. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XX.5.2
  4. Juvenal, Satires vi. 156
  5. Suetonius, Titus 7
  6. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XVIII.5.4
  7. Ciecieląg Jerzy, Polityczne dziedzictwo Heroda Wielkiego. Palestyna w epoce rzymsko-herodiańskiej, Kraków 2002, s. 75-77, 140.
  8. Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae xvii. 1. § 2, xviii. 5–8, xix. 4–8
  9. Josephus, The Wars of the Jews i. 28. § 1, ii. 9. 11
  10. Cassius Dio lx. 8
  11. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History ii. 10