Seelenvorstellung und Totenglaube bei Homer

Gäb, Sebastian (September 2021): Seelenvorstellung und Totenglaube bei Homer.

Abstract

I discuss various issues centered around the notion of soul and death in Homer: the extent to which the homeric texts and archeological artefacts like tombs etc. may be regarded as evidence for certain beliefs; the concept of a plurality of souls and their different functions; I defend the idea that there is a homeric concept of an afterlife for the psyche; I discuss the sense of the burial rituals described in the epics and question their implications for religious beliefs.

• Item Type: Monograph
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Homer; homerische Psychologie; Jenseitsvorstellungen
• Faculties: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Interfaculty Programme for the Study of Religion; Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Chair of Christian World View and Philosophy of Religion
• Subjects: 200 Religion > 210 Philosophy and theory of religion; 800 Literature > 880 Classical and modern Greek literatures
• Language: German