Greek Eidolon

myth:greek_eidolon

The Greeks knew the phantom-double too: the eidolon, the image or wraith — the shade of the dead in Hades, but also the phantom of the living, the eidolon of Helen that went to Troy and let men die for it while Helen herself sat out the war in Egypt. The image of a person, seen or sent apart from the body — the Greek cousin of the ikiryo. — Greek myth