Author: WHITMARSH, TIM
Title: Battling the gods : atheism in the ancient world / Tim Whitmarsh
Description: New York : Alfred A. Knopf 2015. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; ix. 290 pages ; 25 cm. Summary; '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' Subjects; Atheism — Greece — History. Christianity and atheism. ISBN: 0307958329. Weight in Kg appr.:

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