I'm thinking Frank Thring as Herod in King of Kings would be a better fit.
“The only thing that doesn’t sit well with me about this is the comparison with Julius Ceasar. Ceasar was a brilliant general.”
But Ceasar didn’t get a Nobel prize.
Or the emperor Constantine III in 410 AD, making proclamations and fretting about his legacy as if he wasn’t aware that Alaric and his visigoths weren’t about to sack Rome...