the son of a god, the King and Father of the City of Rome.”7 Thus a new political myth was born. The Athenian political vision was clearly theological, as we have seen, but the Roman political vision had related theology and politics in an entirely new way. Now a republic could become a monarchy, and a king could become a god. Other kings would come, but kingship remained a somewhat “otherworldly” idea to those who still had a faint cultural memory of what politics once meant in Athens. The desire