“Caesar” was the Latin ancestral name of an influential Roman political family, dating to 208 BCE. Among the most famous Caesars was Julius who ruled over the Roman Republic from 49–44 BCE. His assassination on the “Ides of March” (15 March 44 BCE) led to a prolonged struggle for power with his grandnephew Gaius Octavian emerging as victor over rival Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE. The “good news” (εὐαγγέλιον) of the victory moved the masses to proclaim Octavian their “savior” (σωτὴρ),