The origins of European thought about the body, the mind, the soul, the world, time, and fate: new interpretations of Greek, Roman and kindred evidence also of some basic Jewish and Christian beliefs

New York: Cambridge University Press (1951)
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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.

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1954, 1988

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B72.O5 1988

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0521351227

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10.2307/628306

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