Hérodias (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- First Published: 1877
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: About 30
- Setting: Machaerous citadel, on the outskirts of ancient Jerusalem
- Principal Characters: Herod Antipas, Mannaei, Hérodias, Iaokanann (John the Baptist), Lucius Vitellius, Aulus Vitellius, Salome
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Politics, Prisoners, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Incest, Divorce, Greek or Roman times
- Locales: Jerusalem
The Story
“Hérodias” opens with a harsh and unsparing landscape, the powerful citadel of Machaerous as it looms over the desert, no city of human beings but an incarnation of power, a huge, pointed crown suspended over an abyss. Great forces are at work in this unforgiving land, against whose barren geometry of forms human figures are dwarfed. Herod Antipas and his wife, Hérodias, dominate the foreground of the opening scene. He is surrounded by political factions and wracked by doubts, shaken by the voice of his prisoner Iaokanann. She is engaged in a remorseless pursuit...
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