The Heir of Caesar
In 45 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius received staggering news: Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world, had named him son...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 8:14-17.
In 45 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius received staggering news: Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world, had named him son and heir in his will. Octavius was not Caesar's biological child. He was a great-nephew from a modest family in Velitrae. Yet under Roman law, adoption was no lesser claim. When Octavius accepted the adoption, he took Caesar's name, inherited Caesar's fortune, and assumed Caesar's authority.…
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