01:840:112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Western Philosophy, Prosthesis, Ancient Greek Philosophy

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Religion
• Course: 01:840:112
• Professor: thomasmyladil

Document Summary

Greek thought that they live in the grave. Psyche might leave the cemetery or the tomb and roam around the earth. No blood, nothing, they are breath, no substance. At the same time, psyche had important connection with the living. Pleased by offering them food, drink and other things. Do the living should have contact with the pshyche not remembering them or not pleasing them could be dangerous to the living, they can harm them. Idea of underworld people who die goes to the underworld all those who dies will go to the under world. Heydes: land of the dead/ the underworld of the dead. The god heydes is the god of the underworld. Brother of the mightiest of the greek god zeus. People who die their psyches will travel to heydes. Nerver allow anybody go back to the world. When a person dies, heydes sends a spirits from the underworld to take psyche to the underworld.