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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
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 soul, which
possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside
the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body
soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gradually
this concept of two kinds of souls was replaced by the idea of a
single soul. In exploring Greek ideas of human souls as well as
those of plants and animals, Bremmer illuminates an important stage
in the genesis of the Greek mind.
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