The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

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The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

Name: The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
ISBN: 9780691101903

Jan N. Bremmer

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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.

Anno:

1983

Casa editrice:

Princeton University Press

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

154

ISBN 10:

0691101906

ISBN 13:

9780691101903