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WESTERN
Atheism in Ancient Greece
Socrates is guilty
Socrates is guilty
(i) of not worshipping the gods whom the State worships,
but introducing new and unfamiliar religious practices;
(ii) and, further, of corrupting the young.
The prosecutor demands the death penalty.
- Diogenes Laërtius (ca. 200 - 250 ce) 2, 40
author of Lives and opinions of eminent philosophers
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