ult in the death of the humans involved, but they are reborn in different ways. The myth of Persephone, abducted by Hades and reclaimed by her mother Demeter, is a trope for agricultural death-and-rebirth myths across many cultures, from Egypt to Africa to the Americas (Graves, 1955). In addition, Plato's (1949) famous doctrine of the recollection and continued rebirth of the soul, articulated especially in the Meno, summarizes the Greek conception, or more exactly ethos, of reincarnation. That idea is also part of Plato's dualism between the realm of the Ideal and the real, which appears throughout the dialogues. Cultural studies in the modern period cite evidence of belief in some form of reincarnation. Eliade (1954) deals with the recurrent myth of "eternal return" that explains the sacral milieu of agricultural practice in premodern societies. Frazer's classic Golden Bough gives multiple accounts of agriculturally based reincarnation traditions around the world. According to Frazer, stories of divine incarnation embodied in human beings that appear in
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