The Early Greek Concept of the Soul (Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in

Description: 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.

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EAN: 9780691101903

UPC: 9780691101903

ISBN: 9780691101903

MPN: N/A

Number of Pages: 166 Pages

Publication Name: Early Greek Concept of the Soul

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 1987

Subject: Theology, Antiquities & Archaeology, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

Item Weight: 8 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Jan N. Bremmer

Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy

Item Length: 8.5 in

Series: Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser.

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback