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Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

Chapter 13: Index
By A. B. Drachmann
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The inquiry examines how denial of the ancient gods was envisioned and reported in classical antiquity, adopting a working definition that treats atheism as denial of the traditional deities rather than later philosophical notions of God. It traces how the term functioned in both moral censure and philosophical discourse, surveys philosophers and schools who questioned or explained away popular gods, and discusses borderline positions that reinterpret rather than reject divine beings. Emphasis falls on the relative rarity of uncompromising denial, methodological problems in the sources, and the implications of dissenting views for understanding the resilience of popular religion.

Index

Absolute definitions of the divine, 16, 19, 68, 69, 82, 88.
Academics, 149.
Academy, later, 108, 114.
Acosta, 137, 139, 141.
Aelian, 121.
Aeneid (mediaeval), 136.
Aeschines, 93.
Aeschylus, 54, 55.
Aetolians, 97, 98.
Alchemistic explanation of Paganism, 140.
Alcibiades, 60.
Alexander the Great, 93, 112.
Allegorical interpretation, 104, 113, 139, 140, 143, 144.
American Paganism, 137, 139, 141.
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, 7, 13, 25-29, 30, 31, 40, 62, 63, 66, 124.
Anaximenes, 30.
Angelology, 129.
Anthropomorphism, 14, 18, 19, 69.
Antisthenes, 13, 74, 109.
Apologists, 128, 130, 132, 139.
Arcissewsky, 138.
Aristides the Apologist, 129.
Aristides Rhetor, 121.
Aristodemus, 60, 62.
Aristophanes, 30, 32, 33, 39, 55, 56-58, 65.
Birds, 32.
Clouds, 30, 55, 56-58
Frogs, 55.
Aristotle, 13, 30, 32, 46, 83-87, 104, 113.
Ethics, 84.
Metaphysics, 85-86.
Politics, 84.
Aristoxenus, 32, 33.
Asclepius, 111, 121, 126.
Asebeia, 6, 7, 8.
Aspasia, 27.
Atheism (and Atheist) defined, 1;
rare in antiquity, 2, 133;
of recent origin, 2, 143;
origin of the words, 5;
lists of atheists, 13;
punishable by death in Plato's Laws, 77;
sin of youth, 78.
Athene, 74.
Athens, its treatment of atheism, 6-8, 9, 12, 25, 39, 65 foll., 74, 75, 83, 86;
its view of sophistic, 58-59.
Atheos (atheoi), 2, 10, 13, 14, 19, 23, 29, 43, 75, 110.
Atheotes, 2.
Augustine, St., 129, 135.
Augustus, 117;
religious reaction of, 100, 113, 117, 120.
Aurelius, Marcus, 11, 121.
Bacon, Francis (De Sap. Vet.) 140.
Banier, 142, 143.
Bible, 130, 142.
Bion, 13, 109.
Brazil, 138.
Bruno, Giordano, 151.
Bryant, 144.
Buttmann, 152.
Caelius Calcagninus, 141.
Caelius Rhodiginus, 141.
Callicles, 48 foll., 63.
Carlyle, 112.
Carneades, 8, 108.
Cassander of Macedonia, 111.
Charon, 135.
Christianity, 126, 128-32.
Christians, their atheism, 9;
prosecutions of, 10;
demonology, 83.
Cicero, 19, 105, 114-17, 147.
Nature of the Gods, 115.
On the State, 115.
On the Laws, 115.
De consolatione, 116.
Cinesias, 60.
Copernicus, 151.
Critias, 13, 44-50.
Sisyphus, 44 f., 114.
Criticism of popular religion, 16, 17, 19, 35 foll., 74, 78, 82, 84, 88, 90, 99, 104, 109, 110, 122, 124-26.
Cuthites, 144.
Cynics, 74, 109-10, 122, 124, 147.
Cyrenaics, 75.
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Daimonion of Socrates, 65, 66, 72-73.
van Dale, 141-42.
Dante, 135.
Deisidaimon, 75.
Demeter, 42, 43, 81.
Demetrius of Phalerum, 75, 93.
On Tyche, 93.
Democritus, 24, 42, 43, 44, 47, 52.
Demonology, 81-83, 105, 113, 127-32, 134-42, 148, 149.
Demosthenes, 92-93, 96.