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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... emperor Augustus . Until that point , the idea of Greece as a totality was a hazy , imaginary ideal rather than any kind of political reality . In the Histo- ries of Herodotus , the fifth - century historian , the Athenians are said to ...
... emperor ) ; and an almost limitless assortment of minor beings whose roles were limited to specific ritual functions ( like Aglaurus , by whom young men in the territory of Athens swore their oaths ) . The crucial point , however , is ...
... emperor , whom they competed with one another to praise . Conversely , however , there were all sorts of counterassertions of traditional identity : long - dead cults were revived , antique dialects were reinvented , classical names ...
... the Christian Bible and the Qur'an . From antiquity onward , the idea of a material book as the ultimate source of truth has persisted . The Roman emperor Justinian passed a law in AD 530 requiring the presence of Good Books.
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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 |