From Provincial Nobody to Heir of an Empire
In 44 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius was studying in Apollonia, a backwater town on the Adriatic coast. He had no army, no...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Galatians 4:4-7.
In 44 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius was studying in Apollonia, a backwater town on the Adriatic coast. He had no army, no fortune, no political standing to speak of. Then a messenger arrived with staggering news: Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the known world, had named Octavius as his adopted son and sole heir in his will.…
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