The Danish classicist A. B. Drachmann asks what atheism meant in the ancient world, distinguishing those accused of it from those who held it. He follows the charge from the early Greek philosophers and the trials of Anaxagoras, Protagoras and Socrates through the Sophists, Diagoras and the Epicureans to the Roman world, where Christians themselves were called atheists.
A short, lucid study for anyone interested in the history of belief and unbelief. Download the free EPUB.