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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Whitmarsh, Tim. Battling the gods. ©2015 (DLC) 2015005799 (OCoLC)906294429 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tim Whitmarsh |
ISBN: | 9780307958334 0307958337 9780571279326 0571279325 |
OCLC Number: | 978273105 |
Notes: | "This is a Borzoi book." |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) |
Contents: | A dialogue -- Part one: Archaic Greece. Polytheistic Greece -- Good books -- Battling the gods -- The material cosmos -- Part two: classical Athens. Cause and effect -- "Concerning the gods, I cannot know" -- Playing the gods -- Atheism on trial -- Plato and the Atheists -- Part three: the Hellenistic era. Gods and Kings -- Philosophical atheism -- Epicurus Theomakhos -- Part four: Rome. With gods on our side -- Virtual networks -- Imagine -- Christians, heretics, and other atheists. |
Responsibility: | Tim Whitmarsh. |
Abstract:
How new is atheism?In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities.Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world.
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