Julius Caesar

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.8 Caesar

  Julius Caesar, lately deified and given temples — the most recent mortal to win a place in heaven.

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.2 the deified Julius

  Julius Caesar, deified after his death, whose temple in the Forum looks on the young princes likened to the brother-gods Castor and Pollux.

• The Festivals §4.6 Caesar

  Julius Caesar, whose victory over the Pompeians and Juba at Thapsus (46 BC) the veteran recalls.

• Metamorphoses §1.5 Caesar's blood

  Julius Caesar, whose assassination Ovid likens to the impious crime that stunned the world.

• Metamorphoses §15.511 Caesar is a god

  Julius Caesar, deified after his murder; the poem's penultimate metamorphosis.

• Metamorphoses §15.516 the deified Julius

  Caesar, to be set as a god in his temple overlooking the forum.