ABSTRACT
A NTI PATE R, the founder of the Herodian fortunes, had been Procurator of all J udrea ; he had made himself indispensable to Rome, and his son,
Herod the Great, more than followed in his footsteps. The Roman emperors found it very convenient to have a man with apparently inexhaustible riches at their beck and call and, no doubt, they saw in him a man devoted to their interests and one who would go far.
