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Author Gelb, Norman

Title Herod the Great : statesman, visionary, tyrant / Norman Gelb
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 209 pages) : map
Contents Principal Characters; Timeline; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Beginnings; Chapter Two: The Road to Jerusalem; Chapter Three: Securing the Throne; Chapter Four: A New Start; Chapter Five: Cultural Divide; Chapter Six: Palace Intrigue; Chapter Seven: Crisis; Chapter Eight: The End Looms; Chapter Nine: Closure; Chapter Ten: Herod: The Image; Chapter Eleven: Herod's Heirs; Chapter Twelve: The Other Herodians; Afterword; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary While many people are familiar with King Herod's famous (or infamous) mention in the Bible, his life touches on many compelling stories of the ancient world-from Antony and Cleopatra to the Olympics, and from aqueducts to executions. From his early life as an Arab who became King of the Jews to the mass executions he ordered at the time of his death, Herod the Great chronicles the fascinating life of this complicated figure
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Herod I, King of Judea, 73 B.C.-4 B.C.
SUBJECT Herod I, King of Judea, 73 B.C.-4 B.C. fast
Herodes I. Judäa, König v73-v4 gnd
Subject Jews -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Jews
Jews -- Kings and rulers
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442210677
1442210672
9781299676732
1299676731