For Herod the Great, the glory of the “royal villain” was firmly established. His name was given to him. He is 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. Svetlana Blomberg is an Israeli writer and journalist, a member of the Tel Aviv Writers Club, and the author of numerous articles on Judaism published in Israeli, Russian and Estonian publications. In the design of the cover used fragments of the painting “King Herod on his Throne” by Theophile Marie Francois Lybaert