Euripides incurred the odium of heresy.

Aeschylus narrowly escaped being stoned to death for blasphemy.

But the frantic efforts of those who are interested in supporting delusions must always end in defeat.

The demoralization resistlessly extended through every branch of literature, until at length it reached the common people.
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.

Greek philosophical criticism had lent its aid to Greek philosophical discovery in this destruction of the national faith.
It sustained by many arguments the wide-spreading unbelief.