Herod Antipas

Herod Antipas was a client ruler of Galilee and Peraea under the Roman Empire. He rebuilt cities including Tiberias, executed John the Baptist and appears in Christian accounts of the trial of Jesus before later being exiled by the emperor Caligula.

Margaret George’s Mary, Called Magdalene places Herod Antipas within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, religion, belief and institutional authority, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.