Wikipedia's article on metempsychosis, the ancient Greek doctrine of soul transmigration, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on metempsychosis, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for Pherecydes of Syros as the earliest connected Greek thinker, Pythagoras as its first famous exponent, Plato's Republic myth of souls choosing new lives, and Marsilio Ficino's allegorical reading of Plato.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metempsychosis
Source Typereference
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