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So a tidy quid pro quo is arranged: Emperor Titus will shut down the Gold faction in exchange for the other faction leaders’ support of his father’s deification in the Senate.
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 July 2024
Maybe columnist Bill Plaschke and others can now stop the deification of Caleb Williams.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
Whether a dead emperor was made a god depended not so much on his worthiness as on how useful his deification was to the man who came after him.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 July 2024
Maybe columnist Bill Plaschke and others can now stop the deification of Caleb Williams.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
Whether a dead emperor was made a god depended not so much on his worthiness as on how useful his deification was to the man who came after him.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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“Deification.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deification. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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