Psyche: Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen

by Erwin Rohde

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108015776
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/31/2010
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)
Language:	German

Table of Contents

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.