When Hadrian died soon thereafter, Antoninus succeeded and induced a reluctant Senate to deify the deceased emperor.
Soon, however, his own portrait appeared, still with the horns that deify him.
And tonight, despite all the pomp, praise and adulation this side project has received, it's clear that Turner is still the star – the man the leering, bleary-eyed crowd are here to deify.
It is not that his countrymen deify him, as much as it is that the outside world does.
The extravagance of funeral rites was surpassed, in some societies, by ceremonies to deify a departed chief or priest.
Any egoist can build a monument to himself, but it is an extraordinary accomplishment to deify oneself — or, at least, the personification of one's better nature — and have it move as many grown men to tears as the "Rocky" films have.
Prosperiti, however, needs to pay keener attention to political details if it is to deify President Putin properly and patriotically.
Indeed, to believe that science is a way to decipher the divine, that technology can capture "God's photograph," is to deify man's handiwork.
"What's important for me, as a student of this time in history, is to not deify what the President did," she told Rolling Stone.
He doesn't deify or demonize Wal-Mart or any of the characters; in fact, he says Wal-Mart's very business model is probably unsustainable.
There are pundits to quiz, acres of cyberspace to fill, Op-Ed columns to file, chesty or creepy-eyed Newsweek covers to shoot, campaign strategists to deify, campaign strategists to demonize, and an Ed Rollins psychodrama to behold.
