in roman times were leaders known as emperors, or did they have the title CEASAR..as in a title not a name?

Question

in roman times was CAESAR just a name like CALIGULA, or AUGUSTUS..or was it used as a title for all emperors...as in he is the CEASAR of the land, or the CEASAR of rome...
was it a name or a title equivalent to emperor

Answer 1

After the Julius his nephew, Octavius, took the name Caesar to claim title to his uncle's estate. He then went on to become the first emperor (Julius was never emperor, just dictator) and changed his name to Augustus. The first 6 or 7 emperors were of the Gaius family so they all took the name Caesar. After that it became customary for all emperors to take the name and eventually the name itself was equal to king or emperor. The Russian CZAR and German KAISER were derived from Caesar.

Answer 2

Caesar became a title and form of address for Roman emperors.

Caesar began as a family name...the family of of Gaius Julius Caesar ("Julius Caesar"), the Roman dictator. The change from being a familial name to an imperial title can be loosely dated to 68 / 69, the so-called "Year of the Four Emperors". The fourth Emperor, Claudius I, was the first to don the purple and assume the name "Caesar" without actually being a Caesar at the time (he was, however, a member by blood of the Julio-Claudian dynasty).

Answer 3

CAESAR was not a title until Julius Caesar became emperor. Both Caligula and Augustus were Caesar. After Julius the name Caesar became associated with the roman emperor. There were two houses of roman royalty after Julius, the Julian and the Flavian. For further information, I suggest reading "The Twelve Caesars" by a roman knight and historian called Suetonius

Answer 4

In addition to the above answers, in the year 292 AD the Emperor Diocletian instigated a system called the Tetrarchy. In it the Empire would be divided between two men (who would take the title of Augustus), and they would each have a deputy that they would formally adopt as their son and heir (that would take the title of Caesar). When an Augustus died or retired, his Caesar would take over and find a new Caesar to serve under him.
Diocletian took the Eastern half of the empire with his deputy Galerius, and Maximian took the Western half. Maximian's Caesar, Constantius, was the father of the eventual Emperor Constantine.
While the system did work well during Diocletian's rule, and brought peace and stability that had been absent during the previous fifty years of chaos and civil war, it sowed the seeds for the eventual complete split of the Empire.

Answer 5

The leaders of Rome were emperors. Caesar started out as a family name as in Julius Caesar. Later the name came to be a title of the emperor. It did not, however, replace the position, or the actual title of emperor. The name, however, did become the title of rulers in other countries after Rome such as Kaiser in Germany and Czar in Russia.

Answer 6

It was both. Julius Ceasar was the name of the first real Emperor and so his successors adopted the name Caesar as well to legitimate their claim to the title.

Answer 7

After Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and won the civil war of 49BC he changed Rome from a Republic to an Empire and he became the first Emporor.

Answer 8

In some factor the Roman Empire keeps by way of the Catholic Church. Btw the Roman emperors had the call Pontifix Maximus simply by fact the emperor grow to be additionally to blame for the non secular responsibilities as intense priest. this counsel is complication-unfastened understanding, I recommend to study greater.

Answer 9

I think he was referred to as the emperor but called caesar as if it were his name