Summary
Erwin Rohde: Psyche - cult of the soul and belief in immortality among the Greeks
First book: Belief in the soul and the cult of the soul in Homer's epics; Taking away from the mortal realm. Islands of the Blessed; Cave gods. The removal from the mortal world to the hills; Heroes; Cult of the soul (Cult of chthonic gods, Cultivation and respect of the dead); Eleusinian Mysteries; Plays about life in the other world.
Book Two: Sources of Faith in Immortality (Thracian Cult of Dionysus); Dionysian religion in Greece and its union with the Apollonian religion, Ecstatic mantic, Cathartic and ghostly compulsion, Asceticism; Orphics; Philosophy; Laity; Plato; Late Hellenism (Philosophy, Folk Faith).
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