The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691101906 |
"Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies."
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Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691101906 |
"Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies."
Author | : Jan Bremmer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691219354 |
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.
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134768222 |
Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 316154451X |
In this wide-ranging work on Greek religion and mythology, Jan N. Bremmer brings together his stimulating and innovative articles, which have all been updated and revised where necessary. In three thematic sections, he analyses central aspects of Greek religion, beginning with the gods and heroes and paying special attention to the unity of the divine nature and the emergence of the category 'hero'. The second section begins with a discussion of the nature of polis religion, continues with various facets, such as seers, secrecy and the soul, and concludes with the influence of the Ancient Near East. The third section studies human sacrifice and offers the most recent analysis of the ideal animal sacrifice, combining literature, epigraphy, iconography, and zooarchaeology. Regarding human sacrifice, it concentrates on the famous cases of Iphigeneia and the werewolves of Mount Lykaion. The fourth and final section investigates key elements of Greek mythology, such as the definition of myth and its relationship to ritual, and ends with a brief history of the study of Greek mythology. The multi-disciplinary approach and rich footnotes make this work a must for anybody interested in Greek religion and mythology.
Author | : Hynek Bartoš |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2020-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108476732 |
The first volume to examine theories of soul in Greek philosophy using an approach drawn from the history of science.
Author | : Esther Eidinow |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199642036 |
This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In doing so, the volume provides a crucial research and orientation tool for students of the ancient world, and also makes a vital contribution to the key debates surrounding the conceptualization of ancient Greek religion. The handbook's initial chapters lay out the key dimensions of ancient Greek religion, approaches to evidence, and the representations of myths. The following chapters discuss the continuities and differences between religious practices in different cultures, including Egypt, the Near East, the Black Sea, and Bactria and India. The range of contributions emphasizes the diversity of relationships between mortals and the supernatural - in all their manifestations, across, between, and beyond ancient Greek cultures - and draws attention to religious activities as dynamic, highlighting how they changed over time, place, and context.
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Apocalypse of Peter |
ISBN | : 9789042913752 |
The Apocalypse of Peter is the first modern collection of studies on this intriguing Early Christian book, that has mainly survived in Ethiopic. The volume starts with a short survey of the Forschungsgeschichte and a discussion of the old question regarding its eventual inspiration: Greek or Jewish. It is followed by a new look at the circumstances of its finding, the composition of the codex and its character, and also by a new edition of the Bodleian and Rainer fragments. The major part of the book studies various aspects and passages of the Apocalypse the nature of the Ethiopic pseudo-Clementine work that contained the Apocalypse, false prophets, the Bar Kokhba hypothesis, Paradise, the post-mortem 'baptism' of sinners, the grotesque body, the pattern of justice underlying our work, the Old Testament quotations and the reception of the Apocalypse in ancient Christianity. The book concludes with a study of the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter. As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by a bibliography and a detailed index.