Battling The Gods

Tim Whitmarsh

ISBN 10: 0571279317 / ISBN 13: 9780571279319

Published by FABER & FABER, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Battling The Gods
• Publisher: FABER & FABER
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571279317
• ISBN 13: 9780571279319
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1751282791.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47081301
• Signed: 6/30/2025 11:26:31 AM
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Synopsis

How new is atheism?

Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, so the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity were mostly suppressed.

Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state, and reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.

About the Author

Tim Whitmarsh is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University. A well-known specialist in the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome, he has appeared on BBC radio and TV, and written for the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books and Literary Review.