The Early Greek Concept of the Soul - Mythos

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.

ISBN:	9780691101903
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Published date:	21 Oct 1987
DEWEY:	292.22
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	154
Weight:	227g
Height:	216mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	10mm

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