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Apotheosis: acquiring divine status

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Transformation granting divine status; differs from returning to an earlier human life or raising the dead for judgment.

Attic red-figure vessel, 4th century BCE; depicts Heracles’s apotheosis, not Alcestis’s rescue. Metropolitan Museum, 52.11.18; public-domain photograph
Attic red-figure vessel, 4th century BCE; depicts Heracles’s apotheosis, not Alcestis’s rescue. Metropolitan Museum, 52.11.18; public-domain photographThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, 52.11.18; Public Domain · Public domainObject record

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The Metropolitan Museum identifies the scene on52.11.18 as Heracles’s death and apotheosis. It does not show Alcestis returning home. The term is a comparative tool, not proof of borrowing between all texts describing movement to another realm. [8]

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  1. Catalogue, API and rights checked; original viewed. Scene is Heracles’s apotheosis, not Alcestis’s rescue. Metropolitan Museum52.11.18; Attic red-figure calyx-krater,4thcenturyBCE; Herakles’s death/apotheosis Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 12 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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