Herod the Great and his son became the New Testament ... as Antony tried to defeat Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus) but was himself defeated at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. The triumphant ...

Herod's establishment of Caesarea followed the precedent of Alexander the Great and his Hellenistic successors, but instead of naming it after himself he named it in honor of Octavian – a brilliant ...