the north wind was there the most gentle of all the winds.  At the mouth of the harbor on each side were three colossi supported by pillars.  And the houses, also built of white stone, were close to the harbor, and the narrow streets of the city led down to it, being built at equal distances from one another.  And opposite the entrance of the harbor upon an elevation was the temple of Caesar Augustus, excellent both for beauty and size, and in it was a colossal statue of Caesar Augustus as big as the Olympian Zeus, which it was made to resemble, and a statue of Rome as big at that of Hera at Argos.  And he dedicated the city to the province, and the harbor to those who sailed there.  But the honor of founding the city he ascribed to Caesar Augustus and accordingly called it Caesarea.  He also built other edifices, the amphitheater, the theater, and market-place in a manner worthy of that name.

[Sidenote:  Jos.  Jew.  War, I, 21:9a-10a] Herod was also a lover of his father, for he built as a memorial of his father a city in the finest plain that was in his kingdom [the lower Jordan valley], which had rivers and trees in abundance, and called it Antipatris.  He also fortified a citadel that lay above Jericho and was very strong and handsome, and dedicated it to his mother, and called it Cypros.  Moreover, he dedicated a tower at Jerusalem to his brother Phasaelus.  He also built another city in the valley which leads north from Jericho and named it Phasaelis.  As a memorial for himself he built a fortress upon a mountain toward Arabia and called it after himself Herodium.

[Sidenote:  Jos.  Jew.  War, I, 21:11a] And when he had built so much, he showed the greatness of his soul to many foreign cities.  He built gymnasiums at Tripolis, Damascus, and Ptolemais.  He built a wall around Byblus, and arcades, colonnades, temples, and market-places at Berytus and Tyre, and theaters at Sidon and Damascus.  He also built an aqueduct for those Laodiceans, who lived by the seaside; and for the inhabitants of Ascalon he built baths and costly fountains, as also encircling colonnades that were admirable for their workmanship and size.

[Sidenote:  Jos.  Jew.  War, I, 22:1a, c-2b] Herod, however, began to be unhappy on account of his wife, of whom he was very fond.  For when he attained the kingship, he divorced her whom he had married when he was a private person, a native of Jerusalem by the name of Doris, and married Mariamne, the daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus.  Because of Mariamne disturbances arose in his family, and that very soon, but chiefly after his return from Rome.  For the sake of his sons by Mariamne he banished Antipater, the son of Doris.  After this he slew his wife’s grandfather, Hyrcanus, when he returned to him out of Parthia, on suspicion of plotting against him.  Now of the five children which Herod had by Mariamne two of them were daughters and three were sons.  The youngest of these sons died while he was being educated at Rome, but the two elder sons he treated as princes because of their mother’s honorable rank and because they had been born after he became king.  But what was stronger than all this was the love he bore to Mariamne.