Category:Malthace (subject)

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Malthace (1st century BCE) was one of the wives of Herod the Great and the mother of Herod Archelaus, Herod Antipas and Olympias.

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Malthace was a Samaritan woman. She was the fourth wife of Herod the Great and the mother of Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus and Olympias.

She died in 4 BCE in Rome, while her sons Herod Archelaus and Herod Antipas were disputing the will of their father before the emperor Augustus.

Malthace in ancient sources

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