# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herod-the-great
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:44.815Z

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description: "A Roman client king who rebuilt the Second Temple and left the Western Wall, then earned a darker immortality in Christian scripture as the man who ordered the slaughter of Bethlehem's infants."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Herod I ruled the Herodian kingdom of Judea as a Roman Jewish client king from roughly 72 BCE until his death in 4 or 1 BCE. He forged a new aristocracy and launched colossal building projects, most famously the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the expansion of its base — the Western Wall stands as part of that work. The crucial details of his reign come down through the 1st century CE historian Josephus, who documented both the scale of Herod's achievements and the tyrannical edge various historians have since assigned to his rule. The Christian Bible names him as the coordinator of the Massacre of the Innocents. When he died, the Romans carved his kingdom into pieces: his son Herod Antipas took Galilee and Peraea, Herod Archelaus became ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, his son Philip received territories north and east of the Jordan, and his sister Salome I was given a toparchy that included Jabneh, Ashdod, and Phasaelis.