the ledger of connections
The Connections of Herod the Great
King of Judea from 37/6 BCE to 4/1 BCE Every person recorded alongside Herod the Great in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Herod the Great in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Antipater the Idumaean, Cypros
- Spouses
- Doris, Mariamne I, Mariamne II, Malthace, Cleopatra of Jerusalem, Pallas
- Children
- Herod Antipas, Antipater, Aristobulus IV, Alexander, Salampsio, Cypros, Herod II, Olympias, Herod Archelaus, Philip the Tetrarch, Herod IV, Roxanne
- Siblings
- Pheroras, Phasael, Salome I, Joseph
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 74 BCE to 4 BCE.

Ancient era
Jesus of Nazareth
7 BCE – April 7, 1930 CE
Central figure of Christianity, revered by billions across two millennia

Ancient era
Mary, mother of Jesus
18 BCE – 48 CE
Mother of Jesus Christ

Ancient era
John the Baptist
6 BCE – 30 CE
1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible)

Ancient era
Spartacus
103 BCE – 71 BCE
Thracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic

Ancient era
Cicero
106 BCE – 43 BCE
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)

Ancient era
Julius Caesar
100 BCE – 44 BCE
Roman general and statesman whose rise ended the Republic

Ancient era
Pompey the Great
106 BCE – 48 BCE
Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)

Ancient era
Marcus Junius Brutus
85 BCE – 42 BCE
Assassin of Julius Caesar

Ancient era
Mark Antony
83 BCE – 30 BCE
Roman politician and general (83 BC – 30 BC)

Ancient era
Cleopatra
69 BCE – 30 BCE
Last pharaoh of Egypt, diplomat and strategist of the ancient world

Ancient era
Augustus
63 BCE – August 19, 1914 CE
First emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

Ancient era
Cato the Younger
95 BCE – 46 BCE
Roman statesman, general and writer (95–46 BC)