Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient WorldKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10. nóv. 2015 - 304 síður 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 Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. |
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... Hesiod . Delphi and Olympia began to achieve their central , Panhel- lenic status from the eighth century onward . It was at this time , too , that the mythological epics were being forged , the Iliad and the Odys- sey . These project ...
... Hesiod's Theogony . These were their earliest poems , composed at some point in the eighth or seventh centuries BC at the dawn of Greek literacy , and the bedrock of their culture . It was unimaginable that a Greek would not know the ...
... Hesiod's Theogony . Herodotus , the historian of the fifth century BC , wrote that " Homer and Hesiod were the first to compose accounts of the origins of the gods , and give the gods their epithets , to allot them their several offices ...
... Hesiod , and the other poets , in his view ( or at least that of Socrates , whom he reports ) , were dangerous peddlers of untruth whose misrepre- sentations of the gods and heroes as immoral would infect the populace , particularly the ...
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Battling the Gods | 40 |
The Material Cosmos | 52 |
Cause and Effect | 75 |
Concerning the Gods I Cannot Know | 87 |
Playing the Gods | 97 |
Atheism on Trial | 115 |
PART THREE | 139 |
Gods and Kings | 145 |
Philosophical Atheism | 156 |
Epicurus Theomakhos | 173 |
With Gods on Our Side | 193 |
Virtual Networks | 205 |
Imagine | 215 |
Christians Heretics and Other Atheists | 231 |