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  • Uploaded by: Photo of mikdbow mikdbow
    In album: Caesarea
    In Webshots channel: travel
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  • Date uploaded: Tue Nov 30 16:27:42 PST 2010

When Antony and Cleopatra lost the Battle of Actium, Caesar Augustus gave the city to Herod the Great (c.30 BC). Herod renamed the city "Caesarea," in honor of the generous emperor. Several other cities were given the same name, so this one was known as Caesarea Martima (Caesarea-by-the-Sea) to distinguish it from the others. Herod began to rebuild the humble harbor on a grand scale in 22 BC, with a view to making it the principal harbor of his kingdom. He completed his work in 10 or 9 BC and celebrated with a grand games festival. The empress Livia sent pieces of her personal furniture as a gift to the city. It was an impressive transformation, ranking alongside his work at Masada and Jerusalem. In his work on the harbor, Josephus commented that Herod had overcome nature. He had lowered huge (50x9x10 feet) limestone blocks into 120 feet of water and flanked the entrance with three gigantic statues on each side. In 1960 an American diving team confirmed Josephus' measurements of the stones.

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