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title: 'Homeric Ideas of the Soul and a Future Life'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'John Williams Proudfit'
date: 1858-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Non-Christian Religions and Beliefs'
- 'Metaphysics'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 3'
- 'Job 38'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/proudfit-1858-homeric-ideas-of-the-soul-and-a-future-life
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# Homeric Ideas of the Soul and a Future Life

Examines German skepticism about Homeric beliefs: Voelcker's claim that Homer viewed psyche as breath/life, not an immortal soul, and critiques his philological argument.

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