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Record Nr.

UNISA996331949603316

Autore

Winiarczyk Marek

Titolo

Diagoras of Melos : a contribution to the history of ancient atheism / / Marek Winiarczyk ; translated from Polish by Witold Zbirohowski-Kośscia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-044765-7

3-11-044804-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, , 1616-0452 ; ; Band 350

Disciplina

200.938

Soggetti

Atheism - Greece - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Current State of Research -- II. Analysis of the More Important Sources -- III. The Life of Diagoras -- IV. The Problem of Diagoras’ Atheism -- V. Diagoras as the Supposed Author of the Commentary on the Derveni Papyrus -- VI. Conclusions -- Appendix I. Diagoras as an Impious Person and Atheist -- Appendix II. Contra Deos Testimonium -- Appendix III. Gods Punish Those Who Stay With an Impious Person -- Bibliography -- 1. Index of names -- 2. Index of geographical and ethnic names -- 3. Index of subjects -- 4. Greek and Latin words and expressions -- 5. Index of passages

Sommario/riassunto

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.