The Herodian Tetrarchy was formed following the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE, when his kingdom was divided between his sons Herod Archelaus as ethnarch, Herod Antipas and Philip as tetrarchs in inheritance, while Herod's sister Salome I briefly ruled a toparchy of Jamnia.Upon the deposition of Herod Archelaus in 6 CE, his territories (Judea, Samaria and Idumea) were …

Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife Julia Domna.He was born on 7 March in either Rome or Mediolanum, at a time when his father was only a provincial governor at the service of Emperor Commodus.In 198, Geta was raised to Caesar.Septimius Severus gave him the title of augustus in late 209.. During the campaign against the Britons in the early 3rd …