Jerome, Chronicle 167c-f
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Caesaream

,

Turris Stratonis

,

Caesarea

, and

Strato’s Tower

are directly attested at Jerome, Chronicle 167c-f. This passage was written ca. 380-381 C.E. possibly in Constantinople. St. Jerome undertook to write a universal history of the world early in his illustrious career. His work translated and annotated the second half of Eusebius’ work, finished over a half century earlier, which was organized into a tabulated concordance of chronological schemes (χρονικοὶ κανόνες) ranging from Abraham to Constantine I; he continued Eusebius in the same format with his own historical compendium for the years 327-378 C.E. This passage from Jerome’s translation of Eusebius covers events in the middle years of the reign of Augustus, including Herod’s program to found cities and to build across the region.

Romanorum Iudaeorum CXCII Olymp(ias) XXXII (167c) Augustus a senatu pontifex maximus appellatur XXII (d) Herodes Caesaream in nomine Caesaris condidit, quae prius Turris Stratonis vocabatur XXXIII (e) Herodes Anthidonam condidit et Antipatridam atque XXIII Herodionem in honorem patris Antipatri et suum exstruxit. Innumerabilia quoque opera in singulis Syriarum urbibus, quas regebat, solertissime aedificavit XXXIIII (f) Tiberius Caesar de captis Pannoniis triumphavit

[Ed. Helm 1956] [Minor corr.]

Year of the Romans Year of the Jews 192nd Olympiad [12 B.C.E.] 32 (167c) Augustus is granted the title pontifex maximus 22 by the Senate. (d) Herod founded Caesarea in the name of Caesar, (the city) which was formerly called Strato’s Tower. [11 B.C.E.] 33 (e) Herod founded Anthedon and Antipatris, and built 23 Herodium in honor of his father Antipater and himself. He also erected countless structures with the utmost skill in the Syrian cities he ruled. [10 B.C.E.] 34 (f) Tiberius Caesarea celebrated a triumph for the conquest 24 of the Pannonias.

[Trans. J. L. Rife with ref. to Pearse 2005]

Works Cited

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[...]

[Dionysius of Tel Mahre 42

Easter Chronicle p. 367

George Cedrenus, Chronicle p. 323

George Syncellus, Chronicle p. 595

John Malalas, Chronicle p. 224

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 15.293

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 16.136

Josephus, Jewish War 1.408]

[Anthedon

Antipatris

Herodium

Syria]

[Antipater the Idumaean

Augustus, emperor

Herod I, king]

[Art and Architecture

Geography

Government and Law

Herodian Dynasty

Paganism

Roman History]