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The Early Greek Concept of the Soul Paperback - 1987

by Jan Bremmer


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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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MODERN SECULARIZATION has made the salvation of the soul a problem of diminishing importance, but the prominence in Western society of psychiatry and psychology shows that we still care for our psyche, for modern terms implies that the Greeks viewed the soul in the modern way.

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'This brief, readable, and important book is richly informed in folklore and modern scholarship, much of both unfamiliar to classicists. From the Greek evidence itself, whether the known like Homer or the more obscure like Artemidorus, many new and convincing insights are gleaned.'Choice

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  • Title The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
  • Author Jan Bremmer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Limited Paperbac
  • Pages 166
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1987-10-21
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780691101903 / 0691101906
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.48 in (19.81 x 13.97 x 1.22 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Cultural Region: Mediterranean
  • Library of Congress subjects Greece - Religion, Soul - History of doctrines
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83018627
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.1

About the author

Jan N. Bremmer is Professor of the History of Religion at the Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, Holland.
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