{"product_id":"battling-the-gods-atheism-in-the-ancient-world-paperback","title":"Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Whitmarsh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In \u003ci\u003eBattling the Gods, \u003c\/i\u003e Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWhitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism's first thousand years, \u003ci\u003eBattling the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTIM WHITMARSH\u003c\/b\u003e is currently the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on ancient prose fiction, including \u003ci\u003eNarrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance, \u003c\/i\u003e and edited \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45311901597798,"sku":"9780307948779","price":26.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UAw25xqucG9780307948779.webp?v=1774306238","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/battling-the-gods-atheism-in-the-ancient-world-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}