Examples of deified in the following topics:
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- Upon Hadrian's death, Antoninus persuaded the Senate to deify Hadrian, and so received the name Pius.
- He also deified his wife, Faustina, after her death and built a temple to her in the Republican Forum.
- Upon his death, Antoninus was also deified and this temple was rededicated to the both of them.
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- The increasing power and wealth of the pharaohs during the early dynastic period was reflected in their elaborate mastaba tombs and mortuary cult structures at Abydos, which were used to celebrate the deified pharaoh after his death.
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- The work is filled with Yoruba and traditional African references, including the Yoruba Sango dance wand in the right hand of the man, references to deified ancestors (a Yoruba belief), the name Esu (the Yoruba god of fate), and others.
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- Their family members could also be deified.
- Sites of imperial cult worshiped the dead and deified emperors along with the living consort, and the household gods of the emperor's family were also incorporated into Roman worship.
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- The Arch of Titus honors the deified Titus and celebrates his victory over Judea in 70 CE.
- This is one of the first examples in Roman art of humans and divinities, as Titus was deified upon his death, mingling together in one scene.
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- Hatshepsut, who ruled from 1479 BC to 1458 BC, traced her heritage not only to her father, Thutmose I, who would have become deified upon his death—but also to the deity, Mut, as a direct ancestor.
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- This famous work depicts four repeating statues of Ramses II, following the tradition of deifying pharaohs.
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- Vespasian added the temple of Peace and the temple to the Deified Claudius.
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- One of the few kings who were deified and honored with a cult during their own lifetime, he is considered to be perhaps the most powerful Egyptian ruler of the dynasty.
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- The Macedonian king was never deified in the same way kings of the
Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties were.