Adopted by Caesar ... a god. With his two grandsons already dead, power passed to his stepson, Tiberius. Augustus had ended 100 years of civil war and achieved over 40 years of internal peace ...

If Caesar was a god then, as his heir, Augustus was the son of a god and he made sure that everybody knew it. Now regarded as part-god, Augustus encouraged stories of his frugal habits.

"All the photos were different sculptures of Augustus ... or a god among men, he was just a teenager named Octavian. Granted, he was the adopted son of the powerful dictator Julius Caesar.