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The author Stefan Stenudd writes about Diagoras of Melos:
The author Stefan Stenudd writes about Diagoras of Melos:
{{Cquote|[[Cicero]] also tells of how a friend of Diagoras tried to convince him of the existence of the gods, by pointing out how many votive pictures tell about people being saved from storms at sea by "dint of vows to the gods", to which Diagoras replied that "there are nowhere any pictures of those who have been shipwrecked and drowned at sea." And Cicero goes on to give another example, where Diagoras was on a ship in hard weather, and the crew thought that they had brought it on themselves by taking this ungodly man onboard. He then wondered if the other boats out in the same storm also had a Diagoras onboard.<ref>[http://www.stenudd.com/greekphilosophers/diagoras.htm Diagoras of Melos] by Stefan Stenudd</ref>}}
{{Cquote|[[Cicero]] also tells of how a friend of Diagoras tried to convince him of the existence of the gods, by pointing out how many votive pictures tell about people being saved from storms at sea by "dint of vows to the gods", to which Diagoras replied that "there are nowhere any pictures of those who have been shipwrecked and drowned at sea." And Cicero goes on to give another example, where Diagoras was on a ship in hard weather, and the crew thought that they had brought it on themselves by taking this ungodly man onboard. He then wondered if the other boats out in the same storm also had a Diagoras onboard.<ref>[http://www.stenudd.com/greekphilosophers/diagoras.htm Diagoras of Melos] by Stefan Stenudd</ref>}}
The Christian writer Athenagoras of Athens (2nd century AD) writes about Diagoras:
{{Cquote|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 was no God at all.<ref>[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/diagoras-of-melos Quotes About Diagoras Of Melos], Goodreads.com</ref>}}
== Diagoras of Melos and his poetry ==
== Diagoras of Melos and his poetry ==