| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 290 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-277) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Atheism -- Greece -- History.
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Greece -- Religion.
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Christianity and atheism.
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Atheism. (OCoLC)fst00819974
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Christianity and atheism. (OCoLC)fst00859658
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Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Atheism in the ancient world |
| ISBN |
9780307958327 (alk. paper) |
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0307958329 (alk. paper) |
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