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Apotheosis

Here are entered works dealing with the deification of rulers, heroes, and others either at death or during life.

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• Ancestor worship
• Religion

• Heroes

• Emperor worship

• Deification

• The Divinity of the Roman Emperor (Philological monographs #1; Middletown, CT: American Philological Association, 1931), by Lily Ross Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Heroes in Peace (William Penn lecture #6; Philadelphia: W. H. Jenkins, 1920), by John Haynes Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Hero in Man (Orpheus series #1; Hale, Cheshire: D. N. Dunlop; London: C. Bax, n.d.), by George William Russell, contrib. by Clifford Bax (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hero in Man (Orpheus series #1; London: Orpheus Press, 1910), by George William Russell, contrib. by Clifford Bax (Gutenberg text)
• Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race, by M. I. Ebbutt (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, by Otto Rank, trans. by F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Doc Sidhe, by Aaron Allston (HTML at Baen Feee Library)
• The Heroine (with a new introduction; London: H. Frowde, 1909), by Eaton Stannard Barrett, contrib. by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Heroine: or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (3 volumes; London: Printed for H. Colburn, 1813), by Eaton Stannard Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Heroine: or, Adventures of Cherubina (third edition, 3 volumes in 1; London: Printed for H. Colburn, 1815), by Eaton Stannard Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cattle-Raid of Cooley (in English and Irish), trans. by Joseph Dunn (HTML at Vassar)
• Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (in German; Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1899), by Rainer Maria Rilke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hero Tales (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by James Baldwin (Gutenberg text)
• A Primary History: Stories of Heroism (Chicago et al.: Rand, McNally and Co., c1909), by William H. Mace, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, Jacques Reich, and P. R. Audibert (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Gods and Heroes, or, The Kingdom of Jupiter (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1896), by R. E. Francillon (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Explorers and Travellers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by A. W. Greely (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Explorers of Australia, and Their Life-Work (1908), by Ernest Favenc
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1923), by John Buchan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Notable Voyagers, by William Henry Giles Kingston and Henry Frith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Celebrated Travels and Travellers (3 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880-1882), by Jules Verne, trans. by Dora Leigh and N. D'Anvers, illust. by Léon Benett, Paul Philippoteaux, Charles Émile Matthis, and E. Morieu
  • Volume I (The Exploration of the World): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II (The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III (The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Breaking the Record: The Story of Three Arctic Expeditions (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Joseph Clauss (HTML at UC Press)

• Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. C. Winston Co., c1926), by John Foxe, ed. by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martyrologia: or, Records of Religious Persecution, Being a New and Comprehensive Book of Martyrs, of Ancient and Modern Times (3 volumes; London: J. Mason, 1848-1851), by John Foxe, John S. Stamp, and William Harris Rule
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (variorum online edition of Foxe's "Book of Marytrs", with transcriptions of four 16th century editions and modern commentary), by John Foxe (HTML at johnfoxe.org)

• The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in 1833, 1834 and 1835, Under the Command of Capt. Back, R.N. (London: R. Bentley, 1836), by Richard King
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1875), by Samuel White Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight Years Wanderings in Ceylon (Lovell's Library Vol. 5 #233; New York: J.W. Lovell Co., 1883), by Samuel White Baker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa (Toronto: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1886), ed. by J. T. Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel White Baker
  • illustrated HTML at lakdiva.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall; With Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849), by William Darlington, contrib. by Peter Collinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Il Primo Viaggio Intorno al Globo di Antonio Pigafetta, e le Sue Regole sull'Arte del Navigare; Giraloamo Benzoni e la Sua Historia del Mondo Nuovo (in Italian; Rome: Auspice il Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, 1894), by Antonio Pigafetta, ed. by Andrea Da Mosto, contrib. by Marco Allegri
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com

• Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 (from the second edition; Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), by Alexander Burnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (first edition; London: John van Voorst, 1852), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page images at burtoniana.org)
• The Land of Midian (Revisited) (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1879), by Richard Francis Burton
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume I: HTML at wollamshram.ca
  • Volume II: HTML at wollamshram.ca
• The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Isabel Burton and W. H. Wilkins
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Volume II: illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
• Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, by Richard Francis Burton, ed. by Isabel Burton
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• Dreamers of Empire (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1929), by Achmed Abdullah and Compton Pakenham, illust. by B. K. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.