Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
17.05.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
184
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/1 cm
Gewicht
240 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5370-183-3
How did unbelief survive in a world of temples and omens? A. B. Drachmann traces the hidden history of ancient pagan atheism with the pace of an argument and the curiosity of a traveller. Doubt is older than gods. This classical studies monograph maps greek religious skepticism from early criticism of pagan gods to the sharper edges of ancient philosophy analysis. Moving through ancient Greece religion and into roman empire paganism, Drachmann sets philosophers, poets, and civic cults in their proper social setting, showing how impiety could be debated, punished, or quietly normalised. Epicureanism and impiety receive particular attention, with Lucretius De rerum natura standing as a key witness to a naturalistic worldview that challenged divine providence without abandoning literary grandeur. Clear, disciplined, and unusually readable for religion history scholarship, it serves equally well as a university classics textbook for serious students and a scholarly reference for researchers. First published in the high tradition of European philology, Atheism in Pagan Antiquity remains a landmark study of how ideas travel under pressure and how intellectual freedom can flicker within public ritual. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure: a classic for curious general readers, and a handsome, enduring addition to any classics library. For collectors and casual readers alike, it reveals the drama behind belief: the arguments, the anxieties, and the courage required to think freely, still, in antiquity.
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