Wordie: Apotheosis: Comments

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Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:01:43 +0000

If you read Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, where the character enters Rome's St. Peter's Basilica, you will encounter an example of apotheosis. The movement is not that obvious, but it is there. It gets played out in an episode of combat and opposition. I found that troubling when I first read the work. Byron, and his Schilleresque sense of the sublime, kind of struck me like the guy was a jerk. A self-aggrandizing jerk.

Comment by seanmeade, about 1 year ago

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:08:14 +0000

i most associate apotheosis with the painting in the US Capitol Building: The Apotheosis of George Washington. when i first saw it i was like 'what the heck?!' i like George and all, but he never became a god in *my* world ;-)

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:34:36 +0000

There is a Babylon 5 episode "Falling towards Apotheosis", which is where I first heard this word.