Psyche
Subtitle: the cult of souls and belief in immortality among the Greeks
By: Erwin Rohde
Series: International library of philosophy. Philosophy of religion and general philosophy -- 6; International library of philosophy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9781315822853
Subjects: Religion
Notes: Originally published in 1925 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated by W.B. Hillis from Psyche : Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen.
Table of contents: title: 1. Beliefs about the soul and cult of souls in the Homeric poems; title: 2. Islands of the blest; title: 3. Cave deities. Subterranean; title: 4. Heroes; title: 5. The cult of souls; title: 6. The Eleusinian mysteries; title: 7. Ideas of the future life; title: 8. Origins of the belief in immortality, the Thracian worship of Dionysos; title: 9. Dionysiac religion in greece. Its amalgamation with Apolline religion. Ecstatic prophecy. Ritual purification and exorcism. Asceticism; title: 10. The Orphics; title: 11. The philosophers; title: 12. The lay authors (Lyric poets-Pindar; title: The tragedians); title: 13. Plato; title: 14. The later age of the Greek world.