The early Greek concept of the soul
Bremmer's goal is to present a picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He begins with the archaic age and Homeric epics, where the psyche is a 'free' soul which belongs to an individual and can leave the body -- in dreams, swoons, trances...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
1993
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| Edición: | Fourth printing, for the Mythos series, 1993 |
| Colección: | Mythos (Princeton University Press)
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- The soul
- The soul of the living : The free soul ; The ego souls ; The soul animals ; Conclusion
- The soul of the dead : The soul at the moment of death ; Human and theriomorphic manifestations of the deceased ; The relation between the soul and the body of the dead ; Funeral rites and the soul ; A return of the dead? ; Conclusion
- Appendix One: The soul of plants and animals
- Appendix Two: The wandering soul in Western European folk tradition
