9–14). Indeed, seated with Caesar in his chariot was the winged goddess Victory (Nikē). Most notable in the pre-parade was that the Roman general covered his face with red lead/paint signifying that the general was both king and the god Jupiter. Ironically, however, also seated in the chariot behind the general was a slave with a bell and a whip whose job it was to remind the hero that he was also a man and one would day die (the bell and whip symbolized death). This remarkable paradox—god and dead