Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, Paperback/Tim Whitmarsh
Descriere
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. Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism's first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.
Despre autor
Timothy John Guy Whitmarsh este un clasicist britanic și Profesor Regius de Limba Greacă la Universitatea din Cambridge. Este cel mai bine cunoscut pentru lucrările sale despre cultura literară greacă din Imperiul Roman, a Doua Sofistică, romanul antic grecesc, ateismul antic și apariția creștinismului.
