divinam ex eo maiestatem asserere sibi coepit; datoque negotio, ut simulacra numinum religione et arte praeclara, inter quae Olympii Iovis, apportarentur e Graecia, quibus capite dempto suum imponeret.
—Suetonius, CALIGULA 22
“From that time he began to claim godhood for himself. He gave orders that divine images famous from the reverence given to them or the skill with which they were made (including the statues of Olympian Zeus) should be imported from Greece so that he could replace their heads with his own.”
