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subject	book bibliographic info
atheism	Ando and Ruepke (2006) 72, 103, 104 Bloch (2022) 167 Del Lucchese (2019) 60, 73 Dillon and Timotin (2015) 30, 88, 91 Ebrey and Kraut (2022) 44, 130 Frede and Laks (2001) 89, 92, 99, 183, 184, 212, 290, 303 Frey and Levison (2014) 82 Goodman (2006) 150 Isaac (2004) 460 Jouanna (2012) 108, 111 Mackey (2022) 67 Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014) 400 Schremer (2010) 50, 51, 65, 67 Van der Horst (2014) 176 Versnel (2011) 443, 555, 556, 558 Wilson (2012) 314 Wolfsdorf (2020) 207, 208, 247, 694 Wynne (2019) 58, 64, 69, 76, 177, 274 van der EIjk (2005) 46, 62
atheism, accusations against, christians	Malherbe et al (2014) 362, 387, 665, 794, 813, 816, 824, 825, 887, 888, 889
atheism, accusations against, diogenes	Malherbe et al (2014) 611
atheism, accusations against, epicureans	Malherbe et al (2014) 756, 762
atheism, accusations against, jews	Malherbe et al (2014) 756
atheism, and superstition	Malherbe et al (2014) 771
atheism, atheists	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 294, 295, 296, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308 Rohmann (2016) 103, 105, 129, 189
atheism, christian, accused of	Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022) 106, 109, 110, 111, 131
atheism, decree of diopeithes against	Parker (2005) 92, 93, 113
atheism, epicureanism	Malherbe et al (2014) 762
atheism, impiety, asebeia	Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 327, 329, 333, 334, 335, 336
atheism/atheist	Edelmann-Singer et al (2020) 4, 70, 72, 127

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "atheism"

1. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.1.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Atheism • atheism • impiety (asebeia), atheism

Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006) 103; Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 334; Versnel (2011) 556

1.1.1. πολλάκις ἐθαύμασα τίσι ποτὲ λόγοις Ἀθηναίους ἔπεισαν οἱ γραψάμενοι Σωκράτην ὡς ἄξιος εἴη θανάτου τῇ πόλει. ἡ μὲν γὰρ γραφὴ κατʼ αὐτοῦ τοιάδε τις ἦν· ἀδικεῖ Σωκράτης οὓς μὲν ἡ πόλις νομίζει θεοὺς οὐ νομίζων, ἕτερα δὲ καινὰ δαιμόνια εἰσφέρων· ἀδικεῖ δὲ καὶ τοὺς νέους διαφθείρων.''. None

1.1.1. I have often wondered by what arguments those who drew up the indictment against Socrates could persuade the Athenians that his life was forfeit to the state. The indictment against him was to this effect: Socrates is guilty of rejecting the gods acknowledged by the state and of bringing in strange deities: he is also guilty of corrupting the youth. ''. None

2. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • atheism, decree of Diopeithes against • atheists

Found in books: Lloyd (1989) 333; Parker (2005) 113

3. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • atheism • atheists • impiety (asebeia), atheism

Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 333; Lloyd (1989) 49; Versnel (2011) 556

4. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 1.3-1.4, 1.118 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • atheism

Found in books: Frede and Laks (2001) 99; Wolfsdorf (2020) 207; Wynne (2019) 58

1.3. For there are and have been philosophers who hold that the gods exercise no control over human affairs whatever. But if their opinion is the true one, how can piety, reverence or religion exist? For all these are tributes which it is our duty to render in purity and holiness to the divine powers solely on the assumption that they take notice of them, and that some service has been rendered by the immortal gods to the race of men. But if on the contrary the gods have neither the power nor the will to aid us, if they pay no heed to us at all and take no notice of our actions, if they can exercise no possible influence upon the life of men, what ground have we for rendering any sort of worship, honour or prayer to the immortal gods? Piety however, like the rest of the virtues, cannot exist in mere outward show and pretence; and, with piety, reverence and religion must likewise disappear. And when these are gone, life soon becomes a welter of disorder and confusion; ' "1.4. and in all probability the disappearance of piety towards the gods will entail the disappearance of loyalty and social union among men as well, and of justice itself, the queen of all the virtues. There are however other philosophers, and those of eminence and note, who believe that the whole world is ruled and governed by divine intelligence and reason; and not this only, but also that the gods' providence watches over the life of men; for they think that the cornº and other fruits of the earth, and also the weather and the seasons and the changes of the atmosphere by which all the products of the soil are ripened and matured, are the gift of the immortal gods to the human race; and they adduce a number of things, which will be recounted in the books that compose the present treatise, that are of such a nature as almost to appear to have been expressly constructed by the immortal gods for the use of man. This view was controverted at great length by Carneades, in such a manner as to arouse in persons of active mind a keen desire to discover the truth. " '
1.118. Take again those who have asserted that the entire notion of the immortal gods is a fiction invented by wise men in the interest of the state, to the end that those whom reason was powerless to control might be led in the path of duty by religion; surely this view was absolutely and entirely destructive of religion. Or Prodicus of Ceos,\',WIDTH,)" onmouseout="nd();"º who said that the gods were personifications of things beneficial to the life of man — pray what religion was left by his theory? ''. None

5. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • atheism • atheists

Found in books: Lloyd (1989) 49; Wolfsdorf (2020) 207

6. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Godlessness, reproach of • atheism

Found in books: Isaac (2004) 460; Lampe (2003) 202

7. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Atheism • Godlessness, reproach of

Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006) 72; Lampe (2003) 202

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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