Meanings
- not comparableRelating to apotheosis.
Apotheotic scenes become common in the imperial period after entering aristocratic funerary practice and imagery in the late Republic (Price 1987).
2004, Eireann Marshall, Fiona McHardy, Women's Influence on Classical Civilization, page 892 more examples
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.
2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, page 6The poem's dense allusions to ascension emphasize the apotheotic atmosphere. This celestial ascent is accompanied by mourning and other funerary rituals […]
2016, Branko van Oppen de Ruiter, Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship
Translations
French apothéotique
- apothéotiquerelating to apotheosis
Portuguese apoteótico
- apoteóticorelating to apotheosis
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