Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-27091614-20151023205843/@comment-31094009-20171213223145

The closest anyone's gotten to claiming imperial power was Octavian when he declared himself Pontifex Maximus, this office originally was elected but after Augustus took control of the republic and changed it into an empire, it just became another title the emperor would hold, as his name was Octavian we can only assume that's what he meant when taking the new title. But I digress.