The lexica and scholarship on ἄθεος have either not included or extensively explored two adverbial uses of ἄθεος that can be found in a Socratic dialogue called Alcibiades, written by Aeschines the Socratic (at frag. 8 Dittmar, SSR vi-A 50). After setting out a brief overview on the uses of ἄθεος in fifth-century Greek, and the wider context of Aeschines’ Alcibiades (an often neglected, early work from the fourth century BCE), this present article will explore the uses of ἀθέως in this dialogue in its connection with the discourse of Socrates’ 399 BCE trial and the implications of this usage for the semantic history of ἄθεος as a philosophical term.
John Henry (Wed,) studied this question.