The Early Greek Concept of the Soul Jan Bremmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bremmer, Jan N.

Contributor:

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Mythos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul--History of doctrines.

Religion.

Soul.

Greece.

Greece--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Limited paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Chichester, England : Princeton University Press, [1983]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

ONE. THE SOUL

TWO. THE SOUL OF THE LIVING

THREE. THE SOUL OF THE DEAD

Appendix One. The Soul of Plants and Animals

Appendix Two. The Wandering Soul in Western European Folk Tradition

Selected Bibliography

Index of Passages

General Index

MYTHOS: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 137-140.

"Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691219356

0691219354

OCLC:

1203949051