PEROWNE, S.,
The Life and Times of Herod the Great.
Hodder and Stoughton/CamelotPress, London/Southampton, 1956. 1st ed. 186p. ills. Bound wrps. Ex libris C.T. Perowne.Apart from the atrocities committed in his terrible dotage, Herod’s claims to greatness are many and varied: as the protector of his people, as soldier and diplomat. But above all, for those who enjoy reading history in stones, he was a passionate builder of cities throughout Palestine and of the magnificent Temple at Jerusalem. Here is the full story of the biblical character whose name has become sysnonymous with cruelty because of the Massacre of the Innocents.
€ 15.50
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