Statesman, Visionary, Tyrant
by
Norman Gelb
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea, was a brutal, ruthless, vindictive and dangerously high-strung tyrant. He had many of his subjects killed on suspicion of plotting against him and was accused of slaughtering children in Bethlehem when informed that a new king of the Jews had been born there....