"Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) and index

The soul -- The soul of the living : The free soul ; The ego souls ; The soul animals ; Conclusion -- The soul of the dead : The soul at the moment of death ; Human and theriomorphic manifestations of the deceased ; The relation between the soul and the body of the dead ; Funeral rites and the soul ; A return of the dead? ; Conclusion -- Appendix One: The soul of plants and animals -- Appendix Two: The wandering soul in Western European folk tradition

"Bremmer's goal is to present a picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He begins with the archaic age and Homeric epics, where the psyche is a 'free' soul which belongs to an individual and can leave the body -- in dreams, swoons, trances -- while the body is alive...One of Bremmer's major contributions is to propose that Greek views of the soul should be characterized as multiple rather than dualistic. Further, we should consider the rather negative attitude toward the continued existence of the psyche after bodily death as arising in social conditions which valued the life of the community above the survival of the dead individual." -- Back cover