Sceptical ideas concerning the gods continued into the Second Sophistic. The Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus (approx. 160-210 CE) compiled a large number of ancient arguments against the existence of gods, recommending that one should suspend judgment regarding the matter.Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism Book III, Chapter 3 His relatively large volume of surviving works had a lasting influence on later philosophers.Stein, Gordon (Ed.) (1980). "The History of Freethought and Atheism ". An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism. New York: Prometheus. Retrieved 2007-APR-03.
