Psyche
Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen

A classic examination of the soul and its relation to life before and after death, from Homeric poetry to Plutarch.

Erwin Rohde (Author)

9781108015776, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

342 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.44 kg

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. He also discusses burial rites and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Psyche, reissued here in the 1898 edition, remains a standard reference work on this topic.

Seelenglaube und Seelencult in den homerischen Gedichten
Entrückung. Inseln der Seligen
Höhlengötter. Bergentrückung
Die Heroen
Der Seelencult
Die Mysterien von Eleusis
Vorstellungen von dem Leben im Jenseits
Anhang.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]