Ancient greece and mummies: The primacy of the soul over the body

Francesco Maria Galassi; Elena Varotto

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-3354-9_54

Ancient greece and mummies: The primacy of the soul over the body

Francesco Maria Galassi
, Elena Varotto

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Ancient Greece did not contemplate embalming practices meant to preserve bodies for eternity. Reports of a mummy found by Schliemann are not to be trusted, while there is some literary evidence of temporary forms of honeymediated embalming practices adopted for Spartan kings. Greeks rejected the importance of preserving bodies for eternity because, as it can be found in Plato's work Phaedo, the soul was considered more important than the body and the only truly immortal element.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Handbook of Mummy Studies
Subtitle of host publication	New Frontiers in Scientific and Cultural Perspectives
Editors	Dong Hoon Shin, Raffaella Bianucci
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer Nature
Chapter	36
Pages	877-882
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811533549
ISBN (Print)	9789811533532
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3354-9_54
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

Ancient greece
Archaeology
Classics
Mummies
Plato
Schliemann

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Ancient greece and mummies: The primacy of the soul over the body. / Galassi, Francesco Maria; Varotto, Elena.
The Handbook of Mummy Studies: New Frontiers in Scientific and Cultural Perspectives. ed. / Dong Hoon Shin; Raffaella Bianucci. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021. p. 877-882.

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