(Alexander and Aristobulus) put to death. His sister, Salome, was at the bottom of much of this trouble, and finally she caused the death of Antipater, another son. Herod was a great builder of cities, and sought to please the Emperor Augustus Octavius, whose favor he purchased after the defeat and death of Antony. But he angered the Jews by his adulation of Augustus, by his Hellenizing tendencies, by his repairing the temple (splendid though he made it), and by his cruelties. He changed his will