Project Gutenberg 2016-12-29 Public domain in the USA. 157 Moore, Clifford Herschel 1866 1931 18019585 Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire Produced by Sonya Schermann, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire" by Clifford Herschel Moore is a scholarly publication written in the early 20th century. This book examines the beliefs surrounding immortality that were prevalent in the Greco-Roman world during the time of Jesus and the early Christian centuries. Through historical analysis, Moore explores how these pagan beliefs influenced and interacted with emerging Christian ideas on the same topic. In the book, Moore delves into a range of ideas about the afterlife that existed among ancient Greeks and Romans, touching upon various philosophical, religious, and cultural perspectives. He highlights significant sources, including Virgil’s "Aeneid," to illustrate how concepts of the soul's journey, punishment, and reward evolved from earlier beliefs like those of the Orphics, Pythagoreans, and Stoics. Moore argues that while Christianity introduced new doctrines, such as the resurrection and a unique relationship with God, the foundation of belief in immortality was already well established in pagan thought, providing fertile ground for Christian teachings to take root. Ultimately, he suggests that understanding these pagan concepts is key to grasping the evolution of beliefs in immortality throughout history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 55.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Rome -- Religion Immortality BL Text Category: History - Ancient Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Religion/Spirituality 102454 2025-07-21T11:37:25.983192 text/html 78227 2024-10-23T01:33:47 text/html 130072 2025-07-21T11:37:28.719150 application/epub+zip 129883 2025-07-21T11:37:26.633183 application/epub+zip 84906 2025-07-21T11:37:26.296185 application/epub+zip 177318 2025-07-21T11:37:30.416169 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 159212 2025-07-21T11:37:28.392166 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 115425 2022-09-24T13:38:20.634781 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 80913 2025-07-21T11:37:25.754174 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 60960 2024-10-23T01:33:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17672 2025-07-21T11:37:30.545132 application/rdf+xml 16163 2025-07-21T11:37:26.371152 image/jpeg 2632 2025-07-21T11:37:26.334174 image/jpeg 118198 2025-07-21T11:37:25.996174 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia