![]() | Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians Subjects: Philosophy Ancient; Philosophy and religion -- Greece; Philosophy and religion -- Rome; Superstition -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500; The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as "contagious superstition"; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain and impotent "superstitions." The term of abuse is the same, yet the two writers suggest entirely different things by "superstition." |
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