And nature is of mortals once deceased. For they nor muscle have, nor flesh, nor bone; All those (the spirit from the body once. Divorced) the violence of fire consumes, And, like a dream, the soul flies swift away.
Iliad and Odyssey
The Odyssey, describing the afterlife
c. 8th Century BCE
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