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4 Ιουλ 2020 · The Ancient Greek Ideals that Inspired American Independence. “Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, a new American Nation was founded on an old Greek principle — democratic rule by a free people. We trace this enduring idea to ancient Hellas, where Greeks brought forth the world’s first democracy…”.
The Greeks believed that at the moment of death, the psyche, or spirit of the dead, left the body as a little breath or puff of wind. The deceased was then prepared for burial according to the time-honored rituals.
Sympathetic interest in the human condition eventually led the Greeks to adopt new forms of religion and new cults. No longer seen as a joyless fate, the afterlife became more of a personal quest.
One of the key distinctions made in Greek thought was between the lower, mortal aspects of the soul (associated with desires and emotions) and the higher, immortal aspects (linked to reason and intellect). This duality of the soul was central to their beliefs about life and death.
18 Ιαν 2012 · The after-life, for the ancient Greeks, consisted of a grey and dreary world in the time of Homer (8th century BCE) and is depicted, most famously, in the scene from Book 11 of Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus meets the spirit of the great warrior Achilles in the nether-world where Achilles tells him he would rather be a landless slave on ...
Greek religion, religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Hellenes. Greek religion is not the same as Greek mythology, which is concerned with traditional tales, though the two are closely interlinked.
21 Σεπ 2020 · Valuing life in death. Homer’s “Iliad” explores the themes of 10 years of war – the Trojan War – over a narrative that lasts around 50 days. It shows the internal strife and the struggles...
