The Greeks and the Irrational by E R Dodds

Author:E R Dodds [Dodds, E R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

What I have thus far suggested is a tentative line of spiritual descent which starts in Scythia, crosses the Hellespont into Asiatic Greece, is perhaps combined with some remnants of Minoan tradition surviving in Crete, emigrates to the Far West with Pythagoras, and has its last outstanding representative in the Sicilian Empedocles. These men diffused the belief in a detachable soul or self, which by suitable techniques can be withdrawn from the body even during life, a self which is older than the body and will outlast it. But at this point an inevitable question presents itself: how is this development related to the mythological person named Orpheus and to the theology known as Orphic? And I must attempt a short answer.

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