Two years at Caesarea! Today people might regard that as an ideal vacation - warm Mediterranean breezes, a rocky shoreline with some sandy beaches, daily pageantry with the drills of the Roman legions, plenty of sunshine and swimming. Today, only a few miles to the south, the shore is lined with the high-rise resort hotels of Tel-Aviv. Caesarea itself has become a tourist mecca, carefully excavated and restored to indicate some of the amenities of Roman civilization - paved streets, aqueducts to bring water down from the hills and deep cisterns cut into the rock to store it, the governor’s palace, a large Roman amphitheater suitable for dramatic or musical presentations (or perhaps gladiator fights). To the north and east are the slopes of Mount Carmel, to the south the Plain of Sharon. As…