Unknown, Easter Chronicle 366.15-367.5
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Καισάρειαν

,

Στράτωνος πύργον

,

Caesarea

, and

Strato’s Tower

are directly attested at Unknown, Easter Chronicle 366.15-367.5. This passage was written ca. ca. 630 C.E. possibly in Constantinople. The so-called Easter Chronicle (Chronicon paschale) is a universal history from the Creation down to the later reign of Heraclius, when it was composed, based on an amalgam of biblical, Christian, and secular sources. While the work shows a particular interest in the dating of religious festivals, it contains a wealth of historical and geographic information. Like other chronographic works in the Byzantine tradition—John Malalas before and Theophanes the Confessor and George Syncellus after—the Easter Chronicle is organized annalistically with successive entries by year. In this passage the author cites Herod’s building activities at Jerusalem and Caesarea Maritima.

Ἰνδ. αʹ. κϛʹ. ὑπ. Λίβωνος καὶ Πίσωνος. Ἡρώδης ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις νεὼν λύσας μείζονα οἰκοδόμησεν. ρϟαʹ Ὀλυμπιάς. Ἰνδ. βʹ. κζʹ. ὑπ. Κράσσου καὶ Λεντούλου. Ἰνδ. γʹ. κηʹ. ὑπ. Νέρωνος καὶ Κλάρου. Ἰνδ. δʹ. κθʹ. ὑπ. Μεσσάλα καὶ Κυρινίου. Ἡρώδης Καισάρειαν εἰς ὄνομα Καίσαρος Αὐγούστου ἔκτισεν, Στράτωνος πύργον τὸ πρὶν καλουμένην. ὁ αὐτὸς δὲ καὶ Ἀνθεδόνα ἐπικτίσας Ἀγρίππειαν ἐκάλεσεν, ἔτι δὲ καὶ Περσαβίνην εἰς ὄνομα Ἀντιπάτρου τοῦ ἰδίου πατρός.

[Ed. Dindorf 1832]

Indiction 1. Year 25. Consuls Libo and Piso. [15 B.C.] Herod demolished the Temple in Jerusalem and built it bigger. Olympiad 192 Indiction 2. Year 26. Consuls Crassus and Lentulus. [14 B.C.] Indiction 3. Year 27. Consuls Nero and Clarus. [13 B.C.] Indiction 4. Year 29. Consulship of Messala and Quirinius. [12 B.C.] Herod founded Caesarea in the name of Caesar Augustus, the place previously called Strato’s Tower. The same man also refounded Anthedon and called it Agrippeia as well as Persabine in the name of his own father Antipater. [Trans. J. L. Rife]

Works Cited

[...] 366.15-367.5

[Anthedon (Agrippeia in Gaza)

Antipatris? (Persabine?)

Jersualem]

[Antipater the Idumean

Crassus, M. Licinius

Herodes I, King

Lentulus, Cn. Cornelius

Libo, M. Livius Drusus

Messala, M. Valerius

Nero, Ti. Claudius

Piso, L. Calpurnius

Quirinius, P. Sulpicius

Varus, P. Quinctilius]

[Geography

Government

Herodian Dynasty

Judaism

Roman History]