The last major controversy of his [Hobbes'] life came in 1666 when the parliament introduced a bill criminalizing atheism. While Hobbes explicitly distanced himself from atheism in Leviathan, many parts of it were contrary to established religious doctrine (Catholic or not). The bill was never passed, but Hobbes was no longer allowed to publish anything concerning man or religion. Hobbes then lived out his last days writing his autobiography and returning to his Classical studies. In 1675 he published an English translation of Homer's Odyssey, and a year later one of the Iliad. He worked until his last days, promising his publisher another work in English shortly before he died in 1679.
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