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Philosophical Critiques of Paganism

Lecture no. 10 from the course: The Pagan World: Ancient Religions before Christianity

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Taught by Professor Hans-Friedrich Mueller | 32 min | Categories: History

While most ancient Greeks worshipped, sacrificed, and celebrated as the state preferred, others had their own ideas. Explore the fascinating outlier philosophies of the Pythagoreans, Orphics, Stoics, Epicureans, and more. Most of these small, isolated groups were not a threat to the state’s status quo. But if the state felt threatened, it reacted forcefully, as in the execution of Socrates.
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