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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... inscriptions, naturally, give the official, ideologically sanctioned versions of events. They tend to promote the fiction that societies work smoothly and seamlessly. It is, then, hardly a surprise that ancient inscriptions barely ...
... inscription , and papyrus that Greece generated over a thousand - year period , and we can begin to get a sense of why the docu- mentation for the inhabitants of this small peninsula and its diaspora is so much richer . But it is not ...
... inscriptions found all over the Greek - speaking world often record decisions made collectively . They are better evidence for what groups as a whole thought . Yet there is a downside too . Official inscriptions , natu- rally , give the ...
... inscription about someone who didn't believe in miracle inscriptions - it also provides precious evidence for religious skepticism in practice , as espoused by a regular , everyday Greek . Nothing is known about his social background ...
... inscriptions of the reign of Rameses III in the twelfth century , the marauders who caused havoc throughout the Nile delta and along the Syro - Palestinian coast . Archaeology also suggests links with the Hebrew Bible's Philistines ...
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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 |