Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks
by Erwin Rohde
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Chapters (155)
- Psyche
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PRELIMINARY NOTE TO THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH EDITIONS
- TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
- PART I CHAPTER I ΒELIEFS ABOUT THE SOUL AND CULT OF SOULS IN THE HOMERIC POEMS
- I
- § 1
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- § 7
- § 8
- II
- § 2
- § 3
- III
- § 1
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- NOTES TO CHAPTER I
- I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER II ISLANDS OF THE BLEST TRANSLATION
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- II
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- NOTES TO CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III CAVE DEITIES: SUBTERRANEAN TRANSLATION
- § 1
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- NOTES TO CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV HEROES
- § 1
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- § 7
- § 8
- § 9
- § 10
- § 11
- § 12
- NOTES TO CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V THE CULT OF SOULS
- I CULT OF THE CHTHONIC DEITIES
- § 2
- II FUNERAL CEREMONIES AND WORSHIP OF THE DEAD
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- III TRACES OF THE CULT OF SOULS IN THE BLOOD-FEUD AND SATISFACTION FOR MURDER § 1
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- NOTES TO CHAPTER V
- I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER VI THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- NOTES TO CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII IDEAS OF THE FUTURE LIFE
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- NOTES TO CHAPTER VII
- PART II CHAPTER VIII ORIGINS OF THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY THE THRACIAN WORSHIP OF DIONYSOS
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- NOTES TO CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX DIONYSIAC RELIGION IN GREECE ITS AMALGAMATION WITH APOLLINE RELIGION. ECSTATIC PROPHECY. RITUAL PURIFICATION AND EXORCISM. ASCETICISM
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- § 7
- NOTES TO CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X THE ORPHICS
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- NOTES TO CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI THE PHILOSOPHERS
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- § 7
- NOTES TO CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII THE LAY AUTHORS
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- NOTES TO CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII PLATO
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- NOTES TO CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV THE LATER AGE OF THE GREEK WORLD PART I PHILOSOPHY
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- NOTES TO CHAPTER XIV PART I
- CHAPTER XIV PART II POPULAR BELIEF
- § 2
- § 3
- § 4
- § 5
- § 6
- NOTES TO CHAPTER XIV PART II
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II μασχαλισμός
- APPENDIX III ἀμύητοι, ἄγαμοι AND DANAÏDES IN THE UNDERWORLD
- APPENDIX IV THE TETRALOGIES OF ANTIPHON.
- APPENDIX V RITUAL PURIFICATION EFFECTED BY RUNNING WATER, RUBBING WITH ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES (σκίλλα, FIGS), ABSORPTION OF THE materia peccans INTO EGGS.
- APPENDIX VI HEKATE AND THE Ἑκατικὰ φάσματα, GORGYRA, GORGO, MORMOLYKE, MORMO, BAUBO, GELLO, EMPOUSA, ETC.
- APPENDIX VII
- APPENDIX VIII DISINTEGRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND REDUPLICATION OF PERSONALITY
- APPENDIX IX THE GREAT ORPHIC THEOGONY
- APPENDIX X PREVIOUS LIVES OF PYTHAGORAS. HIS DESCENT TO HADES
- APPENDIX XI INITIATION CONSIDERED AS ADOPTION BY THE GOD
- APPENDIX XII MAGICAL EXORCISMS OF THE DEAD ON LATE κατάδεσμοι, φιμωτικά, ETC.
- INDEX
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