Did the ancient Greeks believe in a soul?

Answer 1

Depends what you mean by both terms. In Greek mythology, Hades was the place of the dead. Inside Hades there were three sections. 1. Elysia, where heroes enjoyed a blissful existence (like Heaven). 2. Tartarus, where the truly wicked would suffer and where the Titans were imprisoned by the Olympians (like Hell). 3. Asphodel, an in between place for the majority of humanity, which was unpleasant but not terrible like Tartarus. (like Limbo).

Actuall its more like: Heaven was Elysium. The River Styx and Wall of Erebos where more like limbo. The Fields of Punishment was Purgatory. And of course Tartarus was hell. As you said Asphodel was also like limbo. Now Isle of the Blest is different. There is no relation between it and any of the Christian beliefs. Also the book "The Odyssey" written by the Greek poet Homer mentons heaven and hell. It also mentions the Underworld (which Odysseus travels to) and Mount Olympus.so the anciet Greeks had many different views. Since both terms appear in anciet writtings.

Answer 2

Yes. The Greeks believed that the souls of the departed went to hades, which Homer showed to be on a remote island. The fact that hades was described in The Odyssey means that belief in an afterlife probably existed before 1000 BCE.

Answer 3

The Greeks afterlife was based off of their mythology. They believed that the underworld was ruled by Hades who controlled countless spirits of those who had died. Life after death was not a happy place.

The Greeks believed that the moment one died their spirit left their body as a little puff of wind. Then the Greeks would elaborately bury the dead body near family in a burial chamber.

Answer 4

Yes, they did. They believed when you died you would go into the Underworld, where the boatman, Charon, took you acroos to the afterlife if you paid him a drachma ( Greek money).

Answer 5

they believed that mount olympis was there heaven and they belived that zues was god.