... : body and soul. And contained within Greek mythology was the 'possibility of a temporary wraith-like existence in the Underworld.'6 However in The Republic 'Socrates' maintained that all human beings would enjoy a life after death. The Ancient Greeks did not presuppose any life after death, believing true immortality belonged to the gods of Olympus. For Plato the soul was our identity. He derives in Phaedo that it ... not fear or resent death. The soul is not maintained by Plato as always perfect, "it is imprisoned by the body and tainted by it."14 'This 'soul-identi...

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