Herod the great s temple to caesar augustus.
Marble temple in caesarea philippi for agustus.
Herod the great was given the area of paneion later to be known as caesarea philippi by caesar augustus in 20 bc.
Herod senior created the artificial port of caesarea maritima on the mediterranean coast and built the temples to his patron augustus at both sites as well as at sebaste near today s nablus in the pagan mindset the limestone cave at caesarea philippi was literally a gate to the underworld where fertility gods spent the winter.
Contemporary sources refer to the city as caesarea panias.
Caesarea philippi ˌ s ɛ s ə ˈ r iː ə f ɪ ˈ l ɪ p aɪ.
The temple of augustus at caesarea philippi this drawing shows an illustration of a temple of augustus.
It became the capital of his large kingdom which spread across the golan and the hauran.
The temple at caesarea philippi would have been built in a similar style.
καισαρεία φιλίππεια kaisareía philíppeia was an ancient roman city located at the southwestern base of mount hermon it was adjacent to a spring grotto and related shrines dedicated to the greek god pan now nearly uninhabited.
The temple sat in front of the cave that was believed to be the gateway to the underworld and where the greek god pan lived.
The new testament as caesarea philippi.
Caesarea philippi modern banias located 40 km north of the sea of galilee in the southwest foothills of mount hermon was known for its grotto red rock bluff forests and springs.
In ad 14 he named the city caesarea philippi in honour of himself and the emperor caesar augustus.
Caesarea philippi literally philip s caesarea.
About 50 years before jesus visited herod the great built a temple of white marble at the grotto.
In honor of augustus visit to the area herod the great built three temples to augustus called augusteums.
In the year 2 bce herod philip founded a pagan city and named it caesarea philippi in honor of augustus caesar.
The district was given by augustus to herod the great 20 bc by whom a temple of white marble was built in honor of the emperor.
They were located in caesarea by the sea samaria sebaste and near paneon.
Augustus was fascinated with the site of ancient paneas because of the flow of water from the cave of pan the bottomless pit and the belief that this was the gate of hades.
After his death his son herod philip ii or philip the tetrarch built a city on the site.
As pan the greek god of pastoralism was often worshipped in caves it was perhaps natural that the first reference to this location around 200 bce calls it.
This was one of three temples herod constructed to honor caesar augustus in israel caesarea maritima by the mediterranean sea samaria sebaste in the south and caesarea philippi.
Augustus had been emperor when jesus was born and was hailed as.
