This book examines the new institution of divinization that emerged as a political phenomenon at the end of the Roman Republic with the deification of Julius Caesar. Michael Koortbojian addresses the myriad problems related to Caesar's, and subsequently Augustus', divinization, in a sequence of studies devoted to the complex character of the new imperial system. These investigations focus on the broad spectrum of forms monumental, epigraphic, numismatic, and those of social ritual used to represent the most novel imperial institutions: divinization, a monarchial princeps, and a hereditary...