Aside from Caesar's attempt to become Emperor...

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How about Saddam Hussein and Slobadon Milosevic?

Of course there's Putin. How about Castro too?

Given that Kevin's participating in a recreation of a debate going on in the late 18th century, we should probably confine our answers to people who lived before that time period.

I was under the impression that Caesar was offered the crown (repeatedly), but that he specifically rejected (repeatedly) it and had it placed on Jupiter's statue on the Capitoline Hill to signify that Rome only had one king.

Agreed. Pretty much everyone agrees that this was a staged event since it seems unlikely that Marc Antony would just HAPPEN to have a crown on him while he was running in the Lupercalia. However, from there it is interpreted in several different ways. One school of thought is that Caesar arranged for Antony to do it so that he could test the waters for declaring himself King. This is generally the way ancient historians (and probably Caesar's contemporaries) interpreted it. It's also been suggested that Caesar had no knowledge of it and that Antony himself planned to do it either to make Caesar look bad by suggesting that he was being considered a king or because he genuinely thought that Caesar should be king. I think the most likely explanation though is that the Roman people were getting worried that Caesar would declare himself King and so Caesar arranged for Antony to offer him the crown so that he could publicly refuse it and thus dispel those notions. If this was his plan, it backfired somewhat, as people generally interpreted it as him testing the waters for monarchy. -M