Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman military and political leader. He played an important part in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Caesar was born in Rome into a well-known patrician family, which supposedly traced its ancestry to Julus, the son of the Trojan prince Aeneas. Caesar was elected quaestor, who supervised the treasury and financial affairs of the state, its armies and its officers, by the Assembly of the People …

…people in fact missed him more than they had anyone else; they went round hunting for his killers, gave him a funeral in the middle of the forum, built a temple on the site of the pyre, and still sacrifice to him as a god."(Cross, Conspiracy & Death (Appian, 1, 4.)). References: http://www.iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/romans6.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar http://heraklia.fws1.com/introduction/Index.html