The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Onians, Richard Broxton
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	02/11/1988
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.