Myth of Er

So that for example, I think, you know, the...

If you take Plato's Myth of Er at the end of The Republic, the very, very extraordinary, you know, different geography and different realms you find there is clearly partly, you know, originally derived, in part at least, from Odyssey 11.

And but you al- and you also get...

I think Homer also, you know, actually just bequeathed to subsequent tradition precisely this idea that the underworld is not something where everything necessarily fits into place.

And kindness to animals because he could never be sure in what form a soul might appear.

Plato presented detailed accounts of reincarnation in his major works, particularly The Myth of Er, which is a philosophical story in Plato's Republic that explores the afterlife in reincarnation.

The Book of the Dead of ancient Egypt mentions the travel of the soul into the next world without coming back to Earth.

In ancient Rome, reincarnation was a basic belief until the fourth century AD, and Hinduism believes the soul is immortal while the body is subject to birth and death.