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apotheotic

adj

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  1. Relating to apotheosis.

    • Apotheotic scenes become common in the imperial period after entering aristocratic funerary practice and imagery in the late Republic (Price 1987).
    • 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.
    • 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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