apotheotic

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apotheotic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to apotheosis.
    • 2004, Eireann Marshall, Fiona McHardy, Women's Influence on Classical Civilization, page 89:
      Apotheotic scenes become common in the imperial period after entering aristocratic funerary practice and imagery in the late Republic (Price 1987).
    • 2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, page 6:
      The apotheotic vector is totally marginal in the Hebrew Bible and it appears solely in the brief descriptions of the ascent to heaven by Enoch and Elijah.
    • 2016, Branko van Oppen de Ruiter, Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship:
      The poem's dense allusions to ascension emphasize the apotheotic atmosphere. This celestial ascent is accompanied by mourning and other funerary rituals […]

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