Herod, king of Judea (part of Palestine): What do we know about the famed king who has been accused through the ages of slaughtering 'all male children, two years and younger'? What would have driven a grown man to send soldiers to commit such an atrocity? What could have been his mental profile? If he chose to use his position of power to kill without remorse, could he have done it before? If so, whom else did he kill? How many could he have killed?Herod is hardly remembered for the great building projects he had undertaken, his hippodromes, his amphitheaters, his great harbor on shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which till today is considered an engineering marvel of his days...How did the mind of someone capable of creating such beauty and yet also so much bloodshed in his own family, work?
