The Origins of European Thought
About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate
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- Author: R. B. Onians
- Date Published: February 1988
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521347945
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Onians' remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients. The volume is remains a fascinating collection of ideas and explanations of cultures as diverse as the Greeks and the Norse, the Celts and the Jews, and the Chinese and the Romans.
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- Date Published: February 1988
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521347945
- length: 602 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 45 mm
- weight: 0.705kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
Part I. The Mind and the Body:
1. Some processes of consciousness
2. The organs of consciousness
3. The stuff of consciousness
4. Cognition - the five senses
5. The liver and the belly
Part II. The Immortal Soul and the Body:
6. The psyche
7. The Genius, Numen, etc
8. Anima and Animus
9. The knees
10. The strength
11. The stuff of life
12. River-worship and some forms of the life-substance
13. The world: beginnings of Greek 'philosophy'
14. Death and cremation
15. The offerings to the dead and to the Gods
16. Nectar and Ambrosia
Part III. Fate and Time:
17. 'On the knees of the Gods'
18. Peirata
19. Kairos
20. The ewaving of fate
21. Other peoples - fate and magic
22. Moiran epitithenal, pepromenos
23. Hyper moron and the relation of the Gods to fate
24. The Jars of Zeus, the scales of Zeus, and the Keres
25. Time - Emar
26. Lachesis, Klotho, and Atropos
27. Phases of body and mind, sorrow, sleep, death, etc
28. Telos
Addenda
Indexes.
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