Psyche
The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks
English translation · Translated by W. B. Hillis
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From the Homeric poems to the later centuries of antiquity, Erwin Rohde follows Greek beliefs about the soul after death. Part I treats the cult of souls, the Islands of the Blest, heroes, funeral rites and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Part II turns to the Thracian worship of Dionysos, the Orphics, the philosophers, Pindar and the tragedians, Plato, and popular belief of the later age. The German original first appeared in the early 1890s; this English version of 1925 is W. B. Hillis's translation of the eighth edition.
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- Author
- Erwin Rohde
- Reading time
- About 24 hours
- Pages
- 909
- Language
- English
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- Ancient History
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