(760-29 BCE)
Israelite queen, daughter of Alexander (son of Aristobulus II) and grand-daughter of John Hyrcanus. She was the second wife of Herod the Great, though she hated him because he had killed nearly all the members of her family, and had replaced her own dynasty (the Hasmoneans) with his own. Herod eventually put her to death.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.