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Belief in immortal soul (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Immortality of the soul 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas 01.01.09 Immortality of the soul	Keywords immortality soul
Period 2nd century CE Roman Empire	Channel Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

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Pausanias 4.32.4:
I know that the Chaldaeans and Indian sages were the first to say that the soul of man is immortal, and have been followed by some of the Greeks, particularly by Plato the son of Ariston.

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Pausanias 4.32.4

Robert Whiting

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