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Caesarea: Herod and Beyond

Building Power

The Politics of Architecture

By Kenneth G. Holum

038 In 44 C.E., the Jewish king Agrippa, king of Judea, stood in the theater of Caesarea, clothed in a garment woven of silver threads that glittered in the first rays of sunlight. To those who looked upon him, he seemed awesome and terrible. The spectators were the leading men of the kingdom. Everyone in positions of authority had gathered in Caesarea to celebrate athletic contests founded by Agrippa’s grandfather, Herod the Great, who had built the city two generations earlier. The king’s flatterers chanted with one voice, “Be merciful to us,” adding, “for if before we feared […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Barbara Burrell, Kathryn Gleason and Ehud Netzer, “Uncovering Herod’s Seaside Palace,” BAR, May/June 1993.

2.

See “Avner Raban: An Appreciation,” BAR, July/August 2004.

Endnotes

1.

Jewish War 1.415.

2.

Jewish Antiquities 16.136-41.

3.

Jewish War 1.414, Jewish Antiquities 15.340.