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The Herod Of Popular Tradition Is The Tyrannical King Of Judaea Who Ordered The Massacre Of The Innocents And Died A Terrible Death In 4 Bc As The Judgment Of God. But This Biography Paints A Much More Complex Picture Of This Contemporary Of Mark Antony, Cleopatra, And The Emperor Augustus. Herod Devoted His Life To The Task Of Keeping The Jews Prosperous And Racially Intact. To Judge By The Two Disastrous Jewish Rebellions That Occurred Within A Hundred And Fifty Years Of His Death -- Those The Jews Called The First And Second Roman Wars -- He Was Not, In The Long Run, Completely Successful. For Forty Years Herod Walked The Most Precarious Of Political Tightropes. For He Had To Be Enough Of A Jew To Retain Control Of His Jewish Subjects, And Enough Of A Pro-roman To Preserve The Confidence Of Rome, Within Whose Territory His Kingdom Fell. For More Than A Quarter Of A Century He Was One Of The Chief Bulwarks Of Augustus' Empire In The East. He Made Judaea A Large And Prosperous Country. He Founded Cities And Built Public Works On A Scale Never Seen Before: Of These, Recently Excavated Masada Is A Spectacular Example. And He Did All This In Spite Of A Continuous Undercurrent Of Prot

Who reads Herod the Great?

Author

Michael Grant

Publisher

McGraw Hill, Inc./American Heritage Press (NY)

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780070240735

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.58 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13