>>1319831

Qin Shih Huang.

>>1319898
FPBP

>>1319831
Cao Cao fits best, seized power from the inside and never openly took over, his heir did.
Qin Shi Huang was more like long lived Alexander.

>>1320511
Caesar and Cao Cao both also had literary pretensions, both loved fucking married women, both came from nobility (gens Julia and Xiahou marquieses) but started out through anti-aristo connections (the populares Marius and the eunuch Cao Teng), both spent decades rising through the ranks of bureaucracy before exploding militarily.
Honestly they're so similar it's creepy.

>>1319831
Perhaps divine emperor Jimmu, who is considered to be the first emperor of Japan? He occupies a similar myth-like status as Caesar did in Rome (remember that he was worshipped like a god on the Italian peninsula).

>>1320612
>remember that he was worshipped like a god on the Italian peninsula
He was declared a god, same as many other emperors. That doesn't mean he was worshipped as such, it was political lip service. No one considered him a god or praied for his divine intercession. In fact, Caesar himself was not even a primary figure in imperial times, Augustus, Germanicus, Trajan were all as adored if not more. His fame skyrocketed to modern levels in post roman times.

>>1320591
>fucking married women
You have a source for that? I've never seen any mention of that in Sanguozhi (though it might be mentioned in Houhanshu)

If you cite an anecdote in Shishuo Xinyu I will reach across the internet and punch you.

>>1320591
this, their heirs eventually became the emperors too.