“The Aether received souls, but the bodies were accepted by the earth”: the Greek perception of death, as inscribed on this public monument of Athens. A public memorial for the fallen Athenian warriors in the battle of Potidaea in 432, which marked the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.

This book examines the most significant issue that occupies human thought, death, “Philosophy is the study of death,” say the Classics. Here, the question of life after death is explored according to the principles of Greek religious tradition. Among other things, the general structure of the Universe and the higher realms of the Gods are analyzed; the subtle composition of the human organism and the life of the soul, both here and in the Afterlife. This book is a comprehensive study on Reincarnation.

The concept of Reincarnation is examined and fully developed in detail, as understood both generally and under the Greek religious tradition. In fact, we extensively refer to the current scientific research on “children who remember.” The related concept of Theogony is also developed in connection with Reincarnation, according to the Orphic Tablets’ “God was born from man.”

Additionally, a detailed and thorough examination is conducted on the pertinent group of issues regarding death that hold religious significance, such as suicide, euthanasia, social euthanasia, abortion, organ donation, and the death penalty. We certainly deal with the customs and traditions related to death, their evolution over time, and the “culture of death,” that is, the psychological perception of death in societies, and of course with the proper education about death that all people should receive from childhood.

Undoubtedly, we will as thoroughly as possible address the Psychic phenomena related to death. It goes without saying that the views of the Classics on all the aforementioned issues are presented and commented upon with full references and with the relevant texts in the original and in translation.