Athaliah

The story of Athaliah supplied Racine with the plot of one of his most famous tragedies.

If a tyrannous and ungodly Queen reign, godly persons “have example and consolation in the case of Athaliah.”

He married Athaliah the daughter of Ahab, and thus was brother-in-law of 1.

Athaliah, whose name 131 gives its title to the tragedy, was daughter to the wicked king, Ahab.

Athaliah, however, shed the blood of her own relations, and did not hesitate to destroy the family of her husband and her son.