“With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.” ReasonMysteryAtheismGodsAncient GreeceHerculesEleusinianDiagorasDiagoras Of MelosOrphic Doctrine Book:A Plea for the Christians Source: A Plea for the Christians