M. David Litwa, who teaches Greek at the University of Virginia, describes his 2013 book “Becoming Divine: An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture” as an attempt to “trace the discourse of deification from ancient Egypt all the way to … modern America,” thus offering “a general introduction to the topic of deification, in all its diversity.”
“From the very first time I heard of it until the present day,” he explains, “I have remained strangely fascinated by the idea of deification and its modern import.”
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