The Emperor God
The Emperor as God… The Reason for the Name: Why was the emperor called God? During the Roman Republic, the deification of rulers was unthinkable, but after the expansion eastward and the rise of the Roman Empire, and after Octavian became Augustus Caesar, the situation changed. The same thing had happened previously with the Greeks; before Alexander the Great's eastward expansions, the idea of…
November 29, 2022