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Diagoras of Melos: A Contribution to the History of Ancient Atheism

By Marek Winiarczyk

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2016
ISBN
3110443775, 9783110443776
ISSN
1616-0452
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1254067 bytes)
Series
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 350
Pages
XVIII+224\243
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-07-21 21:44:13
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Description

Diagoras of Melos (lyric poet, 5th c. B.C.) has received special attention for some time now because he was regarded as a radical atheist and the author of a prose work on atheism in antiquity. He was notorious for revealing and ridiculing the Eleusinian Mysteries and was condemned for impiety at Athens. The present book evaluates Diagoras biography and shows that he cannot be considered to have been an atheist in the modern sense. "

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