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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... century BC , did not take place . But it could have done . All of the ideas in it are to be found in ancient Greek ... fourth century BC , Plato imagines a believer chastising an atheist : " You and your friends are not the first ...
... fourth cen- tury BC various powers competed to absorb territories into their interna- tional empires , until finally in the late first century BC Rome became the undisputed controller of the Mediterranean . In 27 BC Greece became a ...
... fourth century , Plato was even more aggressive in his condemnation : Homer , 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 ...
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Efni
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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 |