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Definition of Heroized
1. heroize [v] - See also: heroize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroized
Literary usage of Heroized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek Votive Offerings: An Essay in the History of Greek Religion by William Henry Denham Rouse (1902)
"The Macedonian examples are all dedicated to the heroized dead. Among them we
meet with the boar hunt, and the snake coiling about a ..."
2. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1889)
"... of the warrior vaulting off his horse—in this case probably the heroized ...
or the Chthonic Dionysos, who symbolizes on these the heroized departed. ..."
3. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1903)
"These two specimens from Samos have been selected out of countless others because
in them it is quite certain that heroized mortals are represented. ..."
4. Anthropological Essays Presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in Honour of His by Barbara W. Freire- Marreco (1907)
"... that when an individual was deified or ' heroized ' after his death a new and
functional name should be then attached to him, expressive of the benign ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"A pagan god or Christian saint appears as a Moslem dede or heroized ancestor ;
a Christian bishoprick succeeds to the priesthood of an old hieran; ..."
6. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1891)
"Is the relief a heroized representation of the chief who was buried beneath the
tumulus? or is the tumulus a landmark, and the relief a sort of milestone, ..."
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