Battling the gods : Atheism in the ancient world
Whitmarsh, Tim2017
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Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked scepticism in ancient Greece, and heretics argued that history must be understood as a result of human action rather than divine intervention. Tim Whitmarsh tells the story of the tension between orthodoxy and heresy with great panache, a story that ended - for the moment - with the imposition of Christianity on the Roman Empire in 313 CE.
Main title:
Battling the gods : Atheism in the ancient world / Tim Whitmarsh.
Author:
Whitmarsh, Tim, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
viii, 290 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780571279319 (pbk)
Dewey class:
211.80938211.8211.8093
LC class:
BL2747.3
Language:
English
BRN:
1815730