Battling the Gods: Atheism and Agnosticism in the Ancient World.
By: Whitmarsh, Tim.
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2017Description: viii, 290p ; pbk.ISBN: 9780571279319.Subject(s): Religion | Christianity and atheism | Humanism | Secularism | Greece | religion | AtheismDDC classification: 200.938Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU St Angela's McKeown Library Main Lending Collection | 200.938 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | T39654 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Archaic Greece : new horizons --P︣olytheistic Greece ; Good books ; Battling the gods ; The material cosmos --C︣lassical Athens : atheism and oppression. Cause and effect ; "Concerning the gods, I cannot know" ; Playing the gods ; Atheism on trial ; Plato and the atheists --T︣he Hellenistic era : godlike kings and godless philosophers. Gods and kings ; Philosophical atheism ; Epicurus Theomakhos --R︣ome : the new world order. With gods on our side ; Virtual networks ; Imagine ; Christians, heretics, and other atheists.
How new is atheism? Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, so the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity were mostly suppressed. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state, and reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.