Herod the Great Herod the Great (73 BC-4 BC), King of Judea, was an example of a class of client princes who kept their thrones by balancing between being overthrown by their own peoples for too much subservience to Rome and being dismissed by the Romans for too much in... more
Herod (born 73 &BC;—died March/April, 4 &BC;, Jericho, Judaea) Roman-appointed king of Judaea (37–4 &BC;). A practicing Jew, he was of Arab origin. He was critical to imperial control of Judaea, despite his earlier support of Mark Antony, and the R... more
