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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This remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilisation and thought