
Episode 4: Expert Opinion - Paul Cartledge
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
The Athenians Were Accused of Not Properly Worshipping the Gods
Anaxagoras was picking up on a general anxiety announced in the athenians. Athenians were accused of not properly worshipping them, he says. And there was some sort of suggestion that they may have done it illegally. But iam trying to correct the impression that it was just a political issue. It was also a theoretical and religious issue. Anaxagoras has replaced zeus with god whirlpool. Well, that's a pretty weird thing to do. You're no longer worshipping zeus. Your worshipping anatural force you can't represent in human form as they represented all their other gods. So and so so i think the religious churge tended
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