Herod the Great firmly entrenched the glory of the "royal villain." He became a household name. He has been compared to Hitler, Stalin, Ivan the Terrible... Meanwhile, the years of Herod's reign went down in the history of the Jewish people as a time of prosperity and prosperity. This book is an attempt to present a psychological portrait of the legendary king. Its author Svetlana Blomberg is an Israeli writer and journalist, a member of the Tel Aviv Club of Writers, the author of numerous articles on Jewish studies published in Israeli, Russian and Estonian publications.