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Battling the gods, atheism in the ancient world, Tim Whitmarsh

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Battling the gods, atheism in the ancient world, Tim Whitmarsh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-277) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Battling the gods

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

906294429

Responsibility statement

Tim Whitmarsh

Sub title

atheism in the ancient world

Summary

"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, "--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Preface -- A Dialogue -- Part One Archaic Greece New Horizons -- 1 Polytheistic Greece -- 2 Good Books -- 3 Battling the Gods -- 4 The Material Cosmos -- Part Two Classical Athens : Atheism and Oppression -- 5 Cause and Effect -- 6 "Concerning the Gods, I Cannot Know" -- 7 Playing the Gods -- 8 Atheism on Trial -- 9 Plato and the Atheists -- Part Three The Hellenistic Era : Godlike Kings and Gosless Philosophers -- 10 Gods and Kings -- 11 Philosophical Atheism -- 12 Epicurus Theomakhos -- Part Four Rome : The New World Order -- 13 With Gods on Our Side -- 14 Virtual Networks -- 15 Imagine -- 16 Christians, Heretics, and Other Atheists -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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Atheism in the ancient world

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