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Battling the Gods

Atheism in the Ancient World

Battling the Gods( )
Author: Whitmarsh, Tim
ISBN:978-0-307-94877-9
Publication Date:Oct 2016
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

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 world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities....
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Humanism
Religion / Ancient
History / Europe / Greece
Religion / Atheism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.22 x 8.01 x 0.66 Inches
Book Weight:0.575 Pounds



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