The Early Greek Concept of the Soul (eBook)

Jan N. Bremmer (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21935-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series (General)
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Alphito • Amphictyon • Ancient Greece • Andromache • Animal soul • Anthesteria • anthropologist • Arbman, E. • archaeology • Archaic Greece • arimaspi • Aristeas • Arnold van Gennep • Benveniste, E. • bernard knox • biaiothanatoi • Bibliography • bilocation • Böhme, J. • Bremmer, J. • burial • Cannibalism • Cazeneuve, J. • Center for Hellenic Studies • Central Asia • classics • Claus, B. C. • clytemnestra • Consciousness • cremation • Darcus (Sullivan), S. • Democritus • Detienne, M. • Deucalion • Devotio • Diodorus Siculus • Dionysian Mysteries • Dionysus • Dodds, E. R. • Eliade, M. • Empedocles • Endocannibalism • epicurus • etymology • Explanation • Fasti • Fisher, H. • Frazer, J. G. • funeral: games • Gello • G. (novel) • Gottschalk, H. B. • Graf, F. • Greek Mythology • Gregory Nagy • Guntram • Haavio, M. • handkerchief • head: and oracle • Helots • Henrichs, A. • Herodotus • Hesiod • Homo Necans • Hospitality • Hyperenor • Illustration • intellectual soul • Iphidamas • Jensen, A. E. • Keres (mythology) • Kleomedes • Kraut • Kurtz, D. C. • Lady of the Animals • Laertes • laughter • Lloyd-Jones, H. • lupercalia • Manuscript • Masks • menos: of animals • Metempsychosis • Meuli, K. • Moralia • Mormo • Mourning • Mrs. • Nilsson, M. P. • North America • Odysseus • Oecolampadius • Onians, R. B. • On the Soul • Oracle • Oral tradition • Paulson, I. • Paul the Deacon • peleus • Philosopher • plants, soul of • Poetry • Probability • proverb • Psychai • Psychology • Pythagoreanism • Quaegebeur, J. • rebirth, of animals • Reincarnation • revenants • Revolution • Richard Buxton (botanist) • Schnaufer, A., Siberia, influence of • Scythians • S. (Dorst novel) • Secularization • Shamanism • Sophocles • Soul • Soul and Body • Strabo • Suggestion • Suicide • temple of artemis • The Dissertation • The House of Hades • The Philosopher • Thesmophoria • Thought • trance: of Aristeas • Unconsciousness • Understanding • V. • Vegetable • Walter Burkert • Western Europe • Writing • zenobius
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21935-4 / 0691219354
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21935-6 / 9780691219356