Battling the gods : atheism in the ancient world / Tim Whitmarsh.
Battling the gods : atheism in the ancient world / Tim Whitmarsh.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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G 2015/4030
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English
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viii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Archaic Greece : new horizons -- Polytheistic Greece ; Good books ; Battling the gods ; The material cosmos -- Classical Athens : atheism and oppression. Cause and effect ; "Concerning the gods, I cannot know" ; Playing the gods ; Atheism on trial ; Plato and the atheists -- The Hellenistic era : go...
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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First edition.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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"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...
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Battling the gods : atheism in the ancient world / Tim Whitmarsh.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-277) and index.
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Text in English.
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G 2015/4030
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9780307958327 hardcover
0307958329 hardcover
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200.938
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991023229179702626
