(Mummius' message to the Greeks was simple: "Enough of your bullshit...we are now in charge!) As was pointed out Mummius did not destroy the Temple of Apollo but did fairly well level the rest of the town.)
Caesar, though, apparently recognized that the location was just to good to pass up and so, like the other two cities the Romans destroyed, Carthage and Jerusalem, they re-cycled the sites. Always pragmatic, those Romans.
Anyway, this was our first view of the site from a distance.
![Image](http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd54/bob01_album/Trip07020.jpg)
There is a Byzantine fort on top of the mountain, which looked to be 1,000 feet high. I can't imagine it serving any military purpose. I could blockade the only road down with a troop of boyscouts!