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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... fifth century BC , did not take place . But it could have done . All of the ideas in it are to be found in ancient Greek sources . If the terms of the debate seem arrestingly modern , that is no coinci- dence . We are still , in the ...
... fifth - century historian , the Athenians are said to have rejected out of hand an alliance with the Persians against the other Greeks , on the grounds that " we are all Greeks : we share blood and language ; we have temples and rituals ...
... fifth century AD , the Christian Church found itself locked in a battle between " monophysites " ( who believed that Christ's human and divine aspects were fully integrated ) and " dyo- physites " ( who thought he had distinct human and ...
... ancient Greek what the Olympian deities were like , and how they managed the universe , the answer would probably refer to or derive from the Iliad , the Odyssey , or Hesiod's Theogony . Herodotus , the historian of the fifth century BC ...
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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 |