ABSTRACT
First published in 2000. This is Volume VI of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Written around 1925, This book entitled Psyche, offers an account of the opinions held by the Greeks about the life of the human soul after death, and is thus intended as a contribution to the history of Greek religion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |250 pages
Part I
chapter |52 pages
Beliefs about the Soul and Cult of Souls in the Homeric Poems
chapter |27 pages
Cave Deities: Subterranean Translation
chapter |41 pages
Heroes
chapter |61 pages
The Cult of Souls
chapter |19 pages
The Eleusinian Mysteries
chapter |15 pages
Ideas of the Future Life
part |330 pages
Part
chapter |53 pages
Dionysiac Religion in Greece
Its Amalgamation with Apolline Religion. Ecstatic Prophecy. Ritual Purification and Exorcism. Asceticism