While we have Billy Joel and Richard Branson as today’s star players for Team Atheism, the original pioneer of godlessness in the ancient world was Greek poet Diagoras of Melos, who lived 500 ...

In ancient Greece, sailors who survived shipwrecks had their portraits displayed in a temple on Samothrace as a testament to the power of Neptune. When Diagoras of Melos was told that this proved ...

MORE than two millennia ago, Roman philosopher and politician Cicero told the story of Diagoras of Melos, the Greek poet and sophist of the 5th century BC. Diagoras, an atheist, was shown a series ...

Tim Whitmarsh, a professor of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge, sets out to dismantle the self-congratulatory notion that disbelief in gods is a modern phenomenon.