Note 1362 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS

Plutarch, Demetrius, 10–13; Athenaeus, vi. 62 sq., pp. 253 sq. Apparently the giddy young man submitted to deification with a better grace than his rough old father Antigonus; who, when a poet called him a god and a child of the sun, bluntly remarked, “That’s not my valet’s opinion of me.” See Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 24. For more evidence of the deification of living men among the Greeks see Mr. A. B. Cook, in Folk-lore, xv. (1904) pp. 299 sqq.