Greeks_Belief_In_The_Afterlife

Greeks Belief In The Afterlife “What beliefs did the ancient Greeks have about life after death. In your opinion have these beliefs had any influence on modern thinking about life after death.” There were many different beliefs, theories and ideas within Greek culture as to what happened to someone once they died. The most dominant of these numerous beliefs was Hades. Legend has it that Hades, one of the brothers of the King of the Gods, Zeus was appointed with the job of being King of the dead. The Greeks believed Hades ruled the ‘underworld’ the land, which you inhabited once you died. Other such possibilities were that after death you transformed into stars, being absorbed into the upper atmosphere, others believed in the re-incarnation cycle, while others thought your soul lived on in another place, amongst these places being the Isle of the Blest and the Elysium Fields. These examples are just a handful of the explanations the Greeks gave to the afterlife. It is doubtless the Greeks were fascinated by death, and glorified it in such a way that would disgust modern societies. They paraded funerals and spent their lives living for their death. This could be because believed, lived, beliefs, once, greeks, life, souls, soul, people, death, very, lives, gods, earth, thought, living, hades, greek, elysium, dead, after, while, way, three, said, regarded, plato, place, live, felt, died, body, bad, another, within