The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and FateCambridge University Press, 11 févr. 1988 - 602 pages 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. |
Table des matières
The Earliest Greeks | 1 |
Part I The Mind and the Body | 11 |
Some Processes of Consciousness | 13 |
The Organs of Consciousness | 23 |
The Stuff of Consciousness | 44 |
CognitionThe Five Senses | 66 |
The Liver and the Belly | 84 |
The Immortal Soul and the Body | 91 |
Molpov iirtTiOevat TrerrpconEVOs etc | 378 |
Ynip p6pov and the Relation of the Gods to Fate | 390 |
The Jars of Zeus the Scales of Zeus and the Kfjpes | 395 |
TimeHuap | 411 |
Lachesis Klotho and Atropos | 416 |
Phases of Body and Mind Sorrow Sleep Death etc | 420 |
T𝞮𝝺os | 426 |
Addenda | 467 |
The 𝞇uXń | 93 |
The Genius Numen etc | 123 |
Anima and Animus | 168 |
The Knees | 174 |
The Strength | 187 |
The Stuff of Life | 200 |
RiverWorship and some Forms of the Lifesubstance | 229 |
The World Beginnings of Greek Philosophy | 247 |
Death and Cremation | 254 |
The Offerings to the Dead and to the Gods | 271 |
Nectar and Ambrosia | 292 |
Fate and Time | 301 |
On the Knees of the Gods | 303 |
𝝿𝞮ípa𝝿a | 310 |
The Weaving of Fate | 349 |
Other PeoplesFate and Magic | 352 |
I Winged Words | 469 |
II Mars Woodpecker Wolf | 470 |
III Liber liber free Freyr etc | 472 |
IV Ancient Jewish Conceptions of the Mind or Soul the Spirit the Holy Spirit the Body and the Divinity of Christ | 480 |
V Praecordia and the Liver | 505 |
VI Bporros Gore and the Ichor of the Gods | 506 |
VII Apocolocyntosis | 507 |
VIII Mortarium Mortar | 508 |
IX The Billie Blind or Belly Blind The Auld BellyBlind Man | 509 |
XI Finis Fimus | 510 |
XII Ancient and Modern Hindoo Conceptions of the Soul | 511 |
XIII Ancient Chinese Conceptions of the Soul and some Chinese and European Beliefs about the Feet | 520 |
A The treatment and the apparent significance of the head in the Old Stone Age | 530 |
B The application of fire to the dead and its meaning in the Stone Age and after | 543 |
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