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Ancient Greece
Animal soul
Anthesteria
Archaeology
Archaic Greece
Aristeas
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Bernard Knox
Burial
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Center for Hellenic Studies
Central Asia
Classics
Clytemnestra
Consciousness
Cremation
Deucalion
Devotio
Diodorus Siculus
Dionysus
Empedocles
Endocannibalism
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Etymology
Explanation
G. (novel)
Gello
Greek mythology
Gregory Nagy
Guntram
Handkerchief
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hospitality
Illustration
Keres (mythology)
Kraut
Laughter
Manuscript
Metempsychosis
Moralia
Mourning
Mrs.
Odysseus
On the Soul
Oral tradition
Paul the Deacon
Philosopher
Poetry
Psychai
Psychology
Pythagoreanism
Reincarnation
Richard Buxton (botanist)
S. (Dorst novel)
Scythians
Secularization
Shamanism
Sophocles
Soul
Strabo
Suicide
The Dissertation
The House of Hades
The Philosopher
Unconsciousness
Understanding
V.
Vegetable
Walter Burkert
Western Europe
Writing
Zenobius
Product details
- ISBN 9780691101903
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gradually this concept of two kinds of souls was replaced by the idea of a single soul. In exploring Greek ideas of human souls as well as those of plants and animals, Bremmer illuminates an important stage in the genesis of the Greek mind.
Jan N. Bremmer is Professor of the History of Religion at the Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, Holland.
