The future king of Judea, Herod I the Great, began to fight for the kingdom from his early youth. His father, the famous commander Antipater in Judea, awakened in him a thirst for power and showed him the path to achieving it. Herod was a contemporary of the Romans Gnaeus Pompey and Gaius Caesar and quickly realized that the road to power in Judea lay through Rome. Loud Roman history and the youth of Herod intertwined together, the future king of the Jews created history with his own hands, the hands of his father and the swords of his soldiers - after all, he was already born a tyrant.