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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2011
      October 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511710681
      9781108015776
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511710681
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 342 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    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.

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