Screen LibraryBattling the gods : atheism in the ancient world /
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Vintage Books
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©2015 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Vintage Books edition. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 290 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780307948779 (paperback) : 0307948773 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | BL2747 |
| CLC: | B929.545 |
| Call Number: | B929.545/W615-1 |
| 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 : godlike kings and godless philosophers. Gods and kings ; Philosophical atheism ; Epicurus Theomakhos -- Rome : the new world order. With gods on our side ; Virtual networks ; Imagine ; Christians, heretics, and other atheists. |