"Heroically" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
In an exceptionally brave or noble manner; with great courage or honor.
Herodias is a name from the New Testament of the Bible. She is the daughter of Arius and the wife of Herod II, the tetrarch of Galilee. She is infamous for her role in the beheading of John the Baptist, as she had manipulated her daughter Salome into asking Herod Antipas, her half-brother and husband of Herodias, to execute John the Baptist on his birthday.