The Pagan World: Ancient Religions before Christianity Episode 10, Philosophical Critiques of Paganism Episode 10, Philosophical Critiques of Paganism.

Streaming video - 2020

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.