The Origins of European Thought

About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23769484
AutoresR B Onians (autor correspondente)
Ano1988
Data de publicação1988-02-11
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoOrigins of European Thought (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511552724
OpenAlexW4236648079
ISBN9780511552724
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas91

This remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilisation and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul and human destiny which were embodied in the myths, legends and customs of the ancients and later emerged, often unrecognized, in literature, philosophy and science. Professor Onians adduces an extraordinary range of comparative evidence, predominantly from Greece and Rome, but also from Norse, Celtic, Jewish, Indian, Chinese and Christian sources. The volume remains a fascinating compendium of ideas, conjectures and explanations which can continue to stimulate and inform the anthropologist, historian of science and philosophy, and classicist.

Ancient history · Art · Celtic languages · Civilization · Compendium · Destiny (ISS module) · Epistemology · Judaism · Literature · Mythology · Scholarship · Soul · Theology · Central European and Russian historical studies · Central European national history · Classical Studies and Philology · Classics · History · Philosophy