Life of Herod
ISBN: 9780460876469
出版社: Tuttle Pub
出版年: 1998-11
页数: 208
定价: 6.95
装帧: Pap
内容简介
The dramatic story of an enlightened, civilised benefactor and murderous tyrant. The Life of Herod is a gripping historical account composed with knowledge and involvement by Josephus, the Jewish Historian and apologist of the 1st century AD, from whose Jewish antiquities' the crises and triumphs of Herod's career are vividly recounted inthis translation. It provides an extroadinary insight into the political machinations and emotional turmoil of a despot whose grandiose aims were achieved at expense of personal happiness.