The Eagle and the Star

He built a Temple to honor God. He murdered his family to secure his throne.

In an age of titans, Herod the Great stands as a colossus of ambition and paranoia. A half-Jew granted the throne of Judea by his Roman masters, he is haunted by the one thing he can never build, buy, or conquer: legitimacy. It is a prize that belongs to his wife, Mariamne, the last princess of the Hasmonean dynasty he deposed. His love for her is a consuming fire, but her very bloodline makes her a constant, danger...