Atheism as a Group Identity in Ancient Greece
Was atheism ever a group identity in Greek antiquity? This paper considers the evidence. For classical Athens, the earliest possible context where atheists may have grouped, the evidence is exiguous and uncertain, but it is possible that (as Plato claimed in The Laws) there were groups of intellectu...
| Τόπος έκδοσης: | Religion in the Roman empire |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2017]
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Religion in the Roman empire
Έτος: 2017, Τόμος: 3, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 50-65 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Ελλάδα (Αρχαιότητα, μοτίβο) (Αρχαιότητα)
/ Αθεϊσμός (μοτίβο)
/ Συλλογική ταυτότητα
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AB Φιλοσοφία της θρησκείας, Κριτική της θρησκείας, Αθεϊσμός KBK Ανατολική Ευρώπη ΤΒ Αρχαιότητα |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
DIAGORAS OF MELOS
B AËTIUS B Atheism B CARNEADES B Group Identity B doxography B Plato B Sextus Empiricus |
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| Σύνοψη: | Was atheism ever a group identity in Greek antiquity? This paper considers the evidence. For classical Athens, the earliest possible context where atheists may have grouped, the evidence is exiguous and uncertain, but it is possible that (as Plato claimed in The Laws) there were groups of intellectuals who defined themselves by their rejection of belief in the gods. It is even possible that they were called atheoi, if the (usually negative) term was reclaimed. For the Hellenistic period, we have stronger evidence, from doxography, that disbelieving philosophers could be treated as a group; but in this case, the group is imagined as a 'virtual network' across time and space, rather than a face-to-face community. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/219944617X14860387744221 |