I find it fascinating what an ambivalent reaction Augustus had to his great-uncle over time. At first, of course, just like Antony sneered, he was a boy who owed EVERYTHING to his name. He wouldn't have gotten out of the starting gate post-assassination if the legions hadn't rallied to him because he was Caesar's heir.

Later on, although he always was willing to work hard to link himself to Divus Iullius, it was almost as if he was more interested in the link to the god than the man, and one wonders if he had a hand in removing a great deal of political documentation from his own times that reflected badly on Caesar, one way or the other. One wonders what happened to the thousands of letters that I suspect were carefully docketed and pigeonholed on the Ides of March.

I think Augustus' conviction that Caesar was a god - or his use of that as a political tool - ensured that even within a decade or two of Caesar's death, the human being was disappearing under the layers of adulation.