The Unconquered God

The month of his birth was renamed julius in his honour, which is why the seventh month of our calendar is to this day called july. Caesar did not have himself declared king, though he did flirt with the idea. Roman tradition was just so firmly against rule by a king, and had been for hundreds of years. The one thing they all held in common were resentment that caesar stood at the top of the political totem pole. They lived to play a specific game, and caesar had basically taken the ball and gone home. He'd ended the game and named himself the permanent victor. In modern times, we tend to seize caesar's assassins as revolutionary republicans