Erwin RohdePsyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks. Two Volumes in One

Handy one volume edition of this classic work originally published in two. Psyche remains a standard reference work for Greek cult practices and beliefs related to the soul. Worthwhile

The world seems to have moved on in so many ways from its apotheosis of archaic and Classical Greek culture but the early Greeks with their practices, rituals, observances, ideas and myths about the the Soul — its manifestations in this life and survival after death — are like a great lake swarming with familiar and exotic species in which the student of the arts, of history, culture, philosophy, theology, can profitably fish, casting his line again and again and hardly ever coming up empty. Riveting, rewarding a monumental, irreplaceable work Psyche: Cult of Souls is near inexhaustible as a source of insight, near bottomless with wisdom, and stretches amazingly wide in its scholarly reach. For classicists and historians, of course, for theologians and philosophers, but above all for psychotherapists who believe as Plato’s Guardians were entrusted with the welfare of the state, so they, in likeness — State mirroring Soul, as Plato taught in the Republic — must care, as the Greeks did, for the welfare of the Soul.

This book is a gold mine! Rohde was one of Nietzsche’s best friends and many of Rohde’s ideas are to be found in Nietzsche’s books! Fantastic book very well written ! Thank you Amazon!