Friday, May 29, 2020

Footnote hr39

Footnote hr39. In From Religion to Philosophy (Edward Arnold 1912), F.M. Cornford tells us of a formulation of such ideas among archaic Greeks:
Man in Homer has two souls. His eidolon or psyche escapes from his mouth at the moment of death; it is his recognisable shape, which may, for a time, revisit his survivors in dreams. It does not exist until the moment of death ; and it does not carry with it to the world of shades any of his vital force. This resides in the other soul (θυμός [=thymos]), whose visible vehicle is the blood ; and it is only by drinking blood that the eidolon can recover its 'wits ’ (φρένες [=phrenes]) or consciousness.
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