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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.
Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary
and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study.
And within this process of widening, children's literature has in
its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for
children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies
of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that
constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles
with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to
children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as
well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been in
tackling the adolescent challenges posed by metamorphosis. Chapters
address such themes as the use made by C S Lewis, in The Horse and
his Boy, of Apuleius' The Golden Ass; how Ovidian myth frames the
Narnia stories; classical 'nonsense' in Edward Lear; Pan as a
powerful symbol of change in children's literature, for instance in
The Wind in the Willows; the transformative power of the Orpheus
myth; and how works for children have handled the teaching of the
classics.
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