Socrates' explation to Glaucon that souls must be immortal
A Renaissance manuscript Latin translation of The Republic
The Myth of Er (/ɜːr/; Greek: Ἤρ, translit. ér, gen.: Ἠρός) is a legend that concludes Plato's Republic (10.614–10.621). The story includes an account of the cosmos and the afterlife that greatly influenced religious, philosophical, and scientific thought for many centuries.
The story begins as a man named Er, son of Armenios (Ἀρμένιος), of Pamphylia, dies in battle. When the bodies of those who died in the battle are collected, ten days after his death, Er remains undecomposed. Two days later he revives on his funeral-pyre and tells others of his journey in the afterlife, including an account of reincarnation and the celestial spheres of the astral plane. The tale includes the idea that moral people are rewarded and immoral people punished after death.
Although called the Myth of Er, the word "myth" here means "word, speech, account", rather than the modern meaning. The word is used at the end when Socrates explains that because Er did not drink the waters of Lethe, the account (mythos in Greek) was preserved for us.
up er, Er, ER, -er, 'er, or er- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ER or Er may refer to: English Republic, alternative name for the Commonwealth of England...
original form of the story where Er (Ara) rises from the grave. James R. Russell opines that the MythofEr draws from a version of the story of Ara changed...
recounting of the myth by Glaucon (Plato's older brother, as a character of The Republic), an unnamed ancestor of Gyges was a shepherd in the service of the...
the myth to convey the conclusions of the philosophical reasoning. Notable examples include the story of Atlantis, the MythofEr, and the Allegory of the...
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other in Homeric myth.[citation needed] Iliad V. 339–342: [not] Blood follow'd, but immortal ichor pure, Such as the blest inhabitants of heav'n< May bleed...
this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth", he is treating...
their past lives. The MythofEr in Book X of Plato's Republic tells of the dead arriving at a barren waste called the "plain of Lethe", through which...
classical mythology is slain by Apollo. One Greek mythof origin of the caduceus is part of the story of Tiresias, who found two snakes copulating and killed...
of the Good, or more literally translated "the Idea of the Good" (ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα), is a concept in the philosophy of Plato. In Plato's Theory of Forms...
mentions the MythofEr, who is said to have been a fallen soldier who resurrected from the dead, and saw their realm. According to this, the length of a punishment...
sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. Damocles was a courtier in the court of Dionysius...
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dictionary. In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (/æmˈbroʊziə, -ʒə/, Ancient Greek: ἀμβροσία 'immortality') is the food or drink of the Greek gods, and is often...
dwelling-place of God, the blessed, celestial beings so divine they are made of pure light, and the source of light and creation. Notably, at the very end of Dante's...
same body ofmyth, was composed in Latin by Valerius Flaccus during the time of Vespasian. Where the written sources fail, through accidents of history...
presented accounts of reincarnation in his works, particularly the MythofEr, where Plato makes Socrates tell how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously...
the bites of venomous creatures... using the virus itself as a cure of many diseases'. Menez, Andre (2003). The Subtle Beast, Snakes From Myth to Medicine...
Cf. Felice Vinci, The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales. The "Illiad", the "Odyssey" and the Migration ofMyth, Inner Traditions, Rochester (Vermont)...
Proposal". Retrieved 19 December 2023. Black, A. J. (2020). Myth-Building in Modern Media The Role of the Mytharc in Imagined Worlds. McFarland. p. 43. Delasara...
of heaven. Some of these traditions, including Jainism, also have a concept of seven earths or seven underworlds both with the metaphysical realms of...
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