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...
| Опубликовано в: : | Religion in the Roman empire |
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2017]
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Religion in the Roman empire
Год: 2017, Том: 3, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 50-65 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Греция (древность, мотив) (Древность)
/ Атеизм (мотив)
/ Идентификация личности с группой
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AB Философия религии KBK Восточная Европа TB Античность |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
DIAGORAS OF MELOS
B AËTIUS B Atheism B CARNEADES B Group Identity B doxography B Plato B Sextus Empiricus |
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| Итог: | 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 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/219944617X14860387744221 |