HEROD

See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

PHILIP  , son of Herod the Great by Cleopatra of Jerusalem, received the tetrarchate of Ituraea and other districts to E. and N.E. of the Lake of Galilee, the poorest part of his father's kingdom . His subjects were mainly Greeks or Syrians, and his coins bear the image of Augustus or Tiberius . He is described as an excellent ruler, who loved peace and was careful to maintain justice, and spent his time in his own territories . He was also a builder of cities, one of which was Caesarea Philippi, and another was Bethsaida, which he called Julias . He died after a reign of thirty-seven years (4 B.C.-A.D . 34); and his dominions were incorporated in the province of Syria . (J . H.A .