The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

Bibliographic Data

ID2436033
AuthorsJan Bremmer, Jan N Bremmer (0000-0001-8400-7143, corresponding author)
Year1983
Publication date1983-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEarly Greek Concept of the Soul (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780691219356
OpenAlexW1983834126
ISBN9780691219356
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited1

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

Afterlife · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Greeks · Literature · Soul · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy

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