Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Herodias Section One The scene of Herodias is the citadel of Machaerus, stronghold of the Tetrarch Herod Antipas, ruler of Palestine under the Roman protectorate. It is dawn, and Antipas is staring out over the battlements at the arid landscape below him, jagged and deeply shadowed in the morning light. In the distance he sees the camp of the King of Arabs, whose daughter he divorced to marry Herodias, the wife of his own brother, Agrippa. Antipas is awaiting help from the Roman governor of Syria, Vitellius, but in the meantime is considering a number of other plans an...
