And so it was that on August 17, in the year 27 BC, an exhausted senate proclaimed him Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus. Literally this meant “Supreme Commander, Caesar, son of the Divine ...

While the works of Alexander the Great and Napoleon disappeared with their exit from the stage of history, and where George Washington and Winston Churchill worked on a smaller canvas, Imperator ...

And once Antony and Cleopatra were dead, and his control of the Roman world was unrivalled, he was known as Imperator Caesar Augustus, divi filius (son of a god, which Julius Caesar had now become).

But if it had been uttered anywhere in the Roman Empire at the time of Jesus, most would have thought of Augustus Caesar -- divi filius, divine son of the deified Julius Caesar. Augustus had ...

(By the time of his death at the age of 75, his title had swollen to Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Consul XIII, Imperator XXI, Tribuniciae potestatis XXXVII, Pater patriae.) ...