ABSTRACT
TIle Ancient Tyrants HEROD THE FIRST (surnamed the Great) was one of the earliest of the tyrants respecting which we have any authentic records. During the years when he was King of Judea he pursued a course of unmitigated crueIfy. He ordered all the children in Bethlehem to be slaughtered. He killed his own wife. Then there was Antiochus Epiphanes, conqueror of Jerusalem, who tortured the Jews physically by subjecting them to every possible form of painful death; and mentally, by prohibiting circumcision, and using swine for the purpose of sacrifice. It was Epiphanes who ordered Ulpianus to be scourged and then fastened up along with a dog and a venomous snake in a sack of ox-hide and thrown into the sea.
