apotheotic

English

Adjective

apotheotic (not comparable)

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 […]

Translations

relating to apotheosis

French: apothéotique (fr)
Portuguese: apoteótico

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