Name Events and Ideas of Direct or Indirect Significance for Paul’s Life and Ministry Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) • He rebuilt Corinth as a Roman colony • He built an aqueduct in Antioch (Syria) to supply the city with water • He was deified posthumously in 42 BC, a decision initiated by his successor Augustus to legitimate his rule with the title divi filius (‘son of the god’) • Caesar, and later Augustus, made Judaism a legal religion (‘religio
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