
Psyche
Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen
Erwin Rohde(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 31. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
446 pages
978-1-108-01578-3 (ISBN)
Description
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? Volume 2 examines the question in the context of the worship of Dionysos, arguing that there were originally many sides to the cult of the wine-god, and that one of these may have been the source of this belief. Psyche, reissued here in the 1898 edition, remains a standard reference work on this topic.
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Language
German
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-01578-3 (9781108015783)
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Content
Urspruenge des Unsterblichkeitsglaubens. Der thrakische Dionysos-dienst; Dionysische Religion in Griechenland. Ihre Einigung mit apollinischer Religion. Ekstatische Mantik. Kathartik und Geisterzwang. Askese; Die Orphiker; Philosophie; Die Laien (Lyrik, Pindar, Die Tragiker); Plato; Die Spaetzeit des Griechenthums; Anhang; Register.