This book examines the newly institutionalized divinization of Caesar and Augustus at the advent of the Roman empire.

Caesar Augustus is the single man who had the most influence over the story of our world. Caesar was a strong personality. He's intriguing, intelligent, strateg

Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry offers a new interpretation of one of the most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and

Revised throughout, the second edition of this successful book takes the most recent research in the field into account and reviews the evidence in order to pla

A riveting portrayal of what the inhabitants of the Roman Empire expected of their ruler and their feelings about him.