Julius Caesar
deity earth Roman single tradition · 1
Julius Caesar was posthumously deified as divus Julius by the Roman Senate. He became the first of a new class of deities proper (divi) in Roman imperial tradition. Caesar’s apotheosis set a precedent for the deification of subsequent emperors.
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- co occurs with
- Claudius, Marcus Aurelius, Alexander, Romulus, Quirinus, Lycurgus, Lysander, Philip II of Macedon, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Antinous
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“the people, says Suetonius (Jul. Caes. c. 88), fully believed in the divinity of Julius Caesar”
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