Oh Augustus, please be our Pharoah!

Kings and their Beseeching Subjects

Augustus liked to rule.

(Much like Mark Zuckerberg who - literally - modelled himself and his ambitions upon Augustus and has much of Augustus’s words memorized.)

But Augustus was more about the future than the past.

He held on to the name Caesar because his great-uncle’s dubious will was his solitary claim to rightful heirhood.

But he changed his own name from Octavian and considered the world to begin afresh from his own personal Imperial Rule.

(Subsequent Emperors agreed with him and fashioned their title “Caesar Augustus”. It wasn't the assassinated Julius Caesar they gave a damn about (after a while) it was Octavian, whose name as far as he, and they, were concerned was Caesar Augustus. It was only after many iffy successsions that the title was shortened to…well, eventually Czar and Kaiser.)

Thus, in the aftermath of THIS HISTORIC EVENT Egyptians begged this guy

to please be their Pharoah. He would be their God’s Image (which is what Pharoahs were considered, and the Bible [therefore?] stresses is actually not unique to one person, but a description of each human being), the ruler of both Upper and Lower Egypt, etc, etc. The Pharoahs had accrued many symbolic titles over the millennia.

So they tried to please him by fashioning him statues in accordance with how they assumed he liked em.

But he was uninterested.

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