The origins of European thought about the body, the mind, the soul, the world, time, and fate
Subtitle: new interpretations of Greek, Roman and kindred evidence also of some basic Jewish and Christian beliefs
By: by Richard Broxton Onians.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
Subjects: Philosophy.; Civilization, Western.
Description: Onians' remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients. The volume is remains a fascinating collection of ideas and explanations of cultures as diverse as the Greeks and the Norse, the Celts and the Jews, and the Chinese and the Romans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Second ed."--P. xviii.