Gaius Iulius Caesar Germanicus (Caligula), 37-41 CE

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Gaius Iulius Caesar Germanicus (Caligula), 37-41
CE
Caligula the deified Augustus
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Roman Empire under Augustus
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Roman Empire under Claudius
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Claudius letter to the AlexandriansPart 1 on
Emperor worship (Select Papryi II Loeb Classical
Library, edd. A.S. Hunt and G.C. Edgar, 1934)

• Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,
  Imperator, Pontifex Maximus, Holder of the
  Tribunician Power, Consul Designate, to the City
  of the Alexandrians, greeting. Wherefore, I
  gladly accepted the honors given to me by you,
  though I have no weakness for such things. And
  first I permit you to keep my birthday as a dies
  Augustus as you have yourselves proposed and I
  agree to the erection in their several places of
  the statues of myself and my family for I see
  that you were anxious to establish on every side
  memorials of your reverence for my house. Of the
  two golden statues, one shall be erected at
  Rome and the other shall be carried in
  procession in your city, and it shall be
  accompanied by a throne adorned with whatever
  trappings you choose .
• But I deprecate the appointment of a high
  priest to me and the building of temples, for I
  do not wish to be offensive to my contemporaries,
  and my opinion is that temples and such forms of
  honor have by all ages been granted as a
  prerogative to the gods alone.

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Claudius letter to the AlexandriansPart 2 on
Greek-Jewish relations (ARD 443)

• If you do not end this deadly and willful
  anger against one another, I will be forced to
  show you what even a benevolent leader is like
  when turned to righteous anger. Therefore, I
  entreat you, the Alexandrian (Greeks), to behave
  benevolently towards the Jews, since they have
  lived in the same city as you for many years, and
  not to abuse the religious rites which they
  practice in the worship of their god, but to
  allow them to observe their own customs which
  they observed also in the time of the deified
  Augustus .
• I order the Jews not to agitate for more
  indulgence than they enjoyed in the past, and not
  to send in the future a second, separate
  delegation, as if they live in a separate city
  for such a thing has never been done before .
  Otherwise I will prosecute them in every way as
  transmitters of a general disease infecting the
  whole world. If, however, both sides leave behind
  their quarrels and indicate a willingness to live
  together in tolerance and benevolence, then I
  will show the utmost care for the city.