Psyche : the cult of souls and the belief in immortality among the Greeks
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Bibliographic Information
Psyche : the cult of souls and the belief in immortality among the Greeks
(International library of philosophy, . Philosophy of religion and general philosophy ; 6)
Routledge, 2000, c1925
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Psyche : Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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Note
Translated from the 8th ed. by W.B. Hillis
Includes bibliographical references and index
Reprint. First published in 1925 by Routledge and Kegan Paul
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 2000. This is Volume VI of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Written around 1925, This book entitled Psyche, offers an account of the opinions held by the Greeks about the life of the human soul after death, and is thus intended as a contribution to the history of Greek religion.
Table of Contents
- Part 1
- Chapter I Beliefs about the Soul and Cult of Souls in the Homeric Poems
- Chapter II Islands of the Best
- Chapter III Cave Deities : Subterranean Translation
- Chapter IV Heroes
- Chapter V The Cult of Souls
- Chapter VI The Eleusinian Mysteries
- Chapter VII Ideas of the Future Life
- Part II
- Chapter VIII Origins of the Belief in Immortality
- Chapter IX Dionysiac Religion in Greece
- Chapter X The Orphics
- Chapter XI The Philosophers
- Chapter XII The Lay Authors
- Chapter XIII Plato
- Chapter XIV The Later Age of the Greek World
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