Psyche: The cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks

by Erwin Rohde

First published in 2000. This is Volume VI of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Written around 1925, This book entitled Psyche, offers an account of the opinions held by the Greeks about the life of the human soul after death, and is thus intended as a contribution to the history of Greek religion.

1356 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 10, 2014

About the author

Erwin Rohde was one of the great German classical scholars of the 19th century. He was born in Hamburg, the son of a doctor. Outside of antiquarian circles, he's known today chiefly for his friendship and correspondence with fellow-philologist Friedrich Nietzsche. The two were students together in Bonn and Leipzig, where they were studying philology taught by Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl. In 1872, he became a professor at the University of Kiel. He was later professor in Jena (1876), Tübingen (1878) and finally Heidelberg, where he died after suffering from a gradual decline in health.