Abstract
My contribution looks at some scattered remarks in Middle Platonic authors, with a special emphasis on Plutarch’s Moralia, which may include references to a vehicle of the soul. In at least two of his myths, which are clearly inspired by Plato, we find traces of a theory of how to imagine the character and nature of the soul after death that cannot readily be explained against the background of Plutarch’s usual source material. I take it that these passages point to a tradition that, long before the more systematic theories elaborated bythe (later) Neoplatonists, alludes to a psychic ochêma albeit in a rather mythical fashion. Hence, the article aims at a tentative reconstruction of the as yet largely unexplored history of the vehicle of the soul between Plato and the Neoplatonists.