Index
Ingeborg Andersen translation
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.
Devil, 132, 137, 139, 141, 144.
Diagoras of Melos, 13, 31-34, 39, 50.
Apopyrgizontes logoi, 32, 33.
Dicaearchus, 98.
Diodorus Siculus, 112.
Diogenes of Apollonia, 13, 29-30, 57.
Diogenes the Cynic, 109.
Dionysus, 42, 43.
Diopeithes, 28.
Dioscuri, 124.
Dium, 98.
Divination, 18, 20, 26, 27, 28, 40, 97, 114, 131, 135, 137, 140-42.
Comp. Oracle.
Dodona, 98, 141.
Dogmatics, 108.
Domitian, 11.
Dupuis, 144.
Elements, divine, 23, 24, 30, 52 foll., 57, 81, 103, 127.
Eleusinian Mysteries, 32, 33, 40, 60.
Ennius, 99, 112.
Epicureans, Epicurus, 13, 76, 80, 83, 105-7, 113, 147, 149.
Euhemerus, Euhemerism, 13, 110-12, 113, 114, 117, 127, 130, 136, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144.
Euripides, 16, 17, 21, 45, 46, 48, 51-56, 62.
Bellerophon, 53.
Melanippe, 55, 56.
Fallen angels, 128, 129, 130.
Florentine Academy, 138.
Foreign gods, 70, 89, 103.
Fontenelle, 142.
Geocentric view, 150.
Geryon, 135.
Giants, 18.
Gorgias, 37.
Hades, 81.
Heavenly bodies, 2, 20, 22, 25, 43, 62, 66, 79, 80, 81, 84, 87, 104, 127, 128, 130, 137, 139, 144, 149, 151.
Heavenly phenomena, 22.
Hebraism, 139, 143, 144.
Hecataeus of Abdera, 112.
Heliocentric view, 151.
Hellenistic philosophy, 94, 103-10, 119.
Hephaestus, 42, 43.
Heracles, 74, 111.
Hercules, 136.
Herder, 145.
Hermae, 40, 60.
Hermes, 124.
Hermias, 83.
Herodotus, 28, 29.
Hesiod, 16, 18.
Heyne, 152.
Hippo of Rhegium, 13, 29-30.
Holy War, 96.
Homer, 16, 18, 43, 68, 106.
Horace, 117.
Huet, 139.
Hylozoism, 23.
Ideas, Platonic, 80.
Idolatry attacked, 123.
See also Image Worship.
Ignorance, Socratic, 68.
Image Worship, 127, 128, 131-37.
Jews, their atheism, 9, 126.
Josephus, 128.
Judaism, 126, 127-28, 129.
Juno Regina, 136.
Jupiter (in Dante), 135;
(in the Thebaïs,) 136.
Jupiter-priest, 100.
Kepler, 151.
Kronos, 111.
Lampon, 26.
Lobeck, 152.
Lucian, 110, 123-26.
Timon, 124.
Dialogues of the Gods, 125.
Lucretius, 106.
Luna Jovis filia, 136.
Macedonia, 93.
Machiavelli, 141.
Magic, 136-37.
Mannhardt, 152.
Mantinea, constitution of, 32.
Marcus Aurelius, 11, 121.
Mediaeval epic poets, 136.
Megarians, 74, 107.
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Menippus of Gadara, 110.
Mexico, 137.
Middle Ages, 133, 135-39.
Milton (Paradise Lost), 134, 135, 141.
Minos, 135.
Miracles, pagan, 131, 132.
Modesty, religions, 55, 70, 73.
Moschion, 46.
Moses and his sister, 139.
Monotheism, 9, 12, 23, 74, 80, 83, 127 foll., 139, 148, 151.
Müller, K. O., 152.
Natalis Comes, 139 foll.
Naturalism, Ionian, 21, 22-25, 30-31, 52, 57.
Negroes, 18.
Neo-Platonists, 83, 121.
Neo-Pythagoreans, 83, 121.
Nero, 11.
Newton, 151.
Nile, 42.
Nomos (and Physis), 35, 36, 38, 63, 74.
Nymphs, 136.
Oenomaus (The Swindlers Unmasked), 122-23, 126.
Old Testament, 127, 129.
Oracle of Ammon, 97; oracles of Boeotia, 97;
Delphic Oracle, 28, 60, 67, 68, 71, 72, 77, 93, 96, 97, 123, 141;
decay of oracles, 96-97;
oracles explained by priestly fraud, 123, 141-42.
Ovid, 117.
Paganism of Antiquity, its character, 15.
Panchaia, 111.
Parmenides, 21.
Pantheism, 20, 23, 103, 119, 122, 127.
Paul, St., 128.
Pericles, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 124.
Peripatetics, 147, 149.
Peru, 137.
Pheidias, 27.
Philip III. of Macedonia, 96.
Philip V. of Macedonia, 97-98.
Philo, 128.
Phocians, 96.
Physis (and Nomos), 35, 36, 63, 74.
Pindar, 16, 17, 52, 71.
Plato, 13, 39, 48, 49, 50, 56, 59, 61-63, 65, 66, 72, 76-81, 82, 84, 113, 147.
Apology, 59, 65, 66, 68, 72, 78, 79.
Euthyphron, 67, 76.
Gorgias, 48 foll., 63, 77.
Laws, 61 foll., 77, 78, 79, 80.
Republic, 50, 56, 77, 78.
Symposium, 82.
Timaeus, 77, 79, 80.
Platonism, 148.
Plethon, 138.
Pliny the Elder, 94, 95, 118, 147.
Plutarch (de def. orac.), 97.
Polybius, 48, 90-91, 94, 99, 113-14, 147;
Stoicism in P., 114.
Pomponazzi (De Incantat.), 141.
Poseidon, 42, 81.
Poseidonius, 104.
Prodicus of Ceos, 13, 42-44, 104.
Protagoras of Abdera, 13, 39-42, 47.
On the Gods, 39 foll.
Original State, 47.
Providence, 60, 61, 78, 105, 118, 122.
Pythia, 93.
Reaction, religious, of second century, 120-21, 125;
of Augustus, see Augustus.
Reinterpretation of the conceptions of the gods, 2.
See also Allegorical interpretation.
Religion a political invention, 47, 114.
Religious thought, early, of Greece, 16-17, 52, 54, 55, 69-70, 71, 84, 88, 98, 107.
Renaissance, 133, 138, 139 foll., 141.
Rohde, 152.
Roman Academy, 138.
Roman religion, 90, 99-100, 101-2.
Roman State-worship, decay of, 98-103.
Romance of Troy, 136.
Romances, 95-96.
Rome's treatment of atheism, 8-11.
Rousseau, 145.
Scepticism, 107-8, 114, 147.
Schoolmen, 135.
Seneca, 110, 122.
Sibylline books, 97.
Sisyphus, 45, 48.
Socrates, 7, 13, 40, 46, 49, 56, 58, 64-73, 84, 107, 147. See also Daimonion of S.
Socratic philosophy, 64, 87, 149.
Socratic Schools, 73, 87-88.
Sol invictus, 136.
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Solon, 16.
Sophistic, 35-38, 57, 64, 87, 104, 148, 149.
Sophocles, 28, 54.
Stilpo, 13, 74, 108.
Stoics, 83, 103-5, 113, 118, 119, 121-22, 147, 148, 149.
Strabo, 97.
Strato, 87, 108.
Suetonius, 121.
Supernaturalism, 149-51.
Superstition, 75, 90, 102, 123, 126.
Tapuis, 138.
Thales, 24.
Thebaïs (mediaeval), 136.
Theodicy (Socratic), 67.
Theodoras, 13, 75-76, 108, 109.
On the Gods, 75.
Theophrastus, 13, 86.
Thermon, 98.
Thomas Aquinas, 131, 135, 138, 139, 140.
Thracians, 18.
Thrasymachus, 50, 62.
Thucydides (the historian), 28-29, 92, 94.
Thucydides (the statesman), 26.
Tiberius, 118.
Tisiphone, 136.
Titans, 18.
Tolerance in antiquity, 9, 11.
Trajan, 11.
Tullia, 116.
Tyche, 91-96, 118.
Typhoeus, 140.
Uranos, 111.
Usener, 152.
Valerius Maximus, 118.
Varro, 100, 110.
Vico (Scienza Nuova), 143.
Violation of sanctuaries, 40, 60, 97, 100.
Virgil, 117.
Voss, G. I., 135, 138, 141.
Wisdom of Solomon, 128.
Worship rejected, 9-13, 60, 74, 77, 84, 109, 123, 125.
Xenocrates, 81-82, 105, 113, 129.
Xenophanes of Colophon, 13, 17-21,
52, 56.
Xenophon, 58, 59, 62, 66, 67.
Memorab. 58, 60.
Apology, 58.
Zeller, 76, 79.
Zeno of Elea, 21.
Zeus, 16, 22, 30, 43, 55, 57, 58, 81, 105, 111, 124.