Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

Tim Whitmarsh

304 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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