Doris:

By: Richard Gottheil , Samuel Krauss

First wife of Herod , whom he married about 45 B.C. The names of her parents are not mentioned, probably because they belonged to the masses, for Josephus says expressly ("Ant." xiv. 12, § 1) that Doris came from the people (δημότις) and that she was a Jewess (ἐκ τοῦ ἔθνους), this statement contradicting "B. J." i. 12, § 3, where it is said that she was not of mean origin (οὐκ ἄσημος); she was a native of Jerusalem ("B. J." i. 22, § 1). After Herod came to the throne in 37 B.C. , he put Doris, by whom he had his eldest son Antipater , away, and married the princess Mariamne ( ib. ). But he preferred Antipater, and recalled Doris in order to humiliate Mariamne's sons ("Ant." xvi. 3, § 3; "B. J." i. 23, §§ 1, 2). Doris, as Antipater's mother, was now much honored at court ("B. J." i. 24, § 2), but she was the first to feel the king's wrath. Herod being aroused by a conspiracy, she was deprived of all her jewels, worth several talents, and was again put away ( ib. i. 30, § 4); however, she still found means to warn her son against his father's anger ( ib. i. 32, § 1). Her subsequent fate is unknown.