Battling the gods : atheism in the ancient world / Tim Whitmarsh.
"How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whi...
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Text in English. |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 290 pages ; 25 cm |
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Contents:
- Archaic Greece : new horizons
- Polytheistic Greece ; Good books ; Battling the gods ; The material cosmos
- Classical Athens : atheism and oppression. Cause and effect ; "Concerning the gods, I cannot know" ; Playing the gods ; Atheism on trial ; Plato and the atheists
- The Hellenistic era : godlike kings and godless philosophers. Gods and kings ; Philosophical atheism ; Epicurus Theomakhos
- Rome : the new world order. With gods on our side ; Virtual networks ; Imagine ; Christians, heretics, and other atheists.