The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife by Jan N. Bremmer
The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife

Jan N. Bremmer

250 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion informative medium-paced
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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...

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