HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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No
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Yes
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Some did; others didn’t
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Most people didn’t and it was illegal to speak of an afterlife
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most ancient Greeks anticipated that the soul left the body after death and continued to exist in some form, but an expectation that good would be rewarded and evil punished in the afterlife was not central to their beliefs.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ancient Greeks believed in gods who were involved in all aspects of human life-work, theater, justice, politics, marriage, battle. There was no separation of church and state. The gods of this ancient Greek pantheon were very human.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Orphic tradition of the ancient Greek religion teaches reincarnation as a reality. Some individuals claim to have had memories of past lives, in which case, belief in rebirth would come naturally, but very few people have had such an experience.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eschatology, from Greek eschatos, last, concerns expectations of the end of the present age, and apocalyptic eschatology is the application of the apocalyptic world-view to the end of the world, when God will punish the wicked and reward the faithful.