| Psyche, 2 Volumes: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality Among the Greeks Contributor(s): Rohde, Erwin (Author), Hillis, W. B. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1597524662 ISBN-13: 9781597524667 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers OUR PRICE: $51.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Religion | History - Religion | Antiquities & Archaeology |
| Dewey: 938 |
| Physical Information: 1.41" H x 5.1" W x 8.04" (1.48 lbs) 642 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece - Cultural Region - Mediterranean - Theometrics - Academic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this work, first published in two volumes in 1890 and 1894, Erwin Rohde (1845 1898), the German classical scholar and friend of Nietzsche, describes the ancient Greek cult of souls and establishes the sources of the belief in the immortality of the soul, exploring its relation to life both before and after death. This belief in the survival of the soul already existed in the earliest Greek writings, but when and from where did it originate? In Volume 1 Rohde examines belief in the soul as it appears in Homeric poetry and within local cults, and finds that the idea of an afterlife is already represented in different forms in the works of Hesiod and Aeschylus. Volume 2 points to the cult of Dionysos as the source of the belief in immortality. Psyche, reissued here in the 1898 edition, remains a standard reference work on this topic." |
