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Title: Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

Author:
A. B. Drachmann

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Language: English

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Atheism In Pagan Antiquity

By

A. B. Drachmann

Professor of Classical Philology in the University of Copenhagen

Gyldendal

11 Hanover Square, London, W.1

Copenhagen

Christiania

1922

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Notes
Index
Footnotes

PREFACE

The present treatise originally appeared in Danish as a University
publication (_Kjoebenhavns Universitets Festskrift_, November 1919). In
submitting it to the English public, I wish to acknowledge my profound
indebtedness to Mr. G. F. Hill of the British Museum, who not only
suggested the English edition, but also with untiring kindness has
subjected the translation, as originally made by Miss Ingeborg Andersen,
M.A. of Copenhagen, to a painstaking and most valuable revision.

For an account of the previous treatments of the subject, as well as of
the method employed in my investigation, the reader is referred to the
introductory remarks which precede the Notes.

A. B. DRACHMANN.
CHARLOTTENLUND,
_July 1922_.

INTRODUCTION

The present inquiry is the outcome of a request to write an article on
"Atheism" for a projected dictionary of the religious history of classical
antiquity. On going through the sources I found that the subject might
well deserve a more comprehensive treatment than the scope of a dictionary
would allow. It is such a treatment that I have attempted in the following
pages.

A difficulty that occurred at the very beginning of the inquiry was how to
define the