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Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet (Hardcover)
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Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Ancient History Series
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Lucian's Alexander Or The False Prophet is a satiric biography of
the religious entrepreneur and career fraudster Alexander of
Abonouteichos. It recounts how, during the reign of Antoninus Pius
(AD 138-161), Alexander succeeded in setting up a fraudulent new
oracular cult of the snake-god Glykon in his home-town of
Abonouteichos in Paphlagonia. In the Alexander, Lucian sets out to
debunk the oracle as a scam, its founder as a debauched crook, and
its clients as gullible idiots. The Alexander is an extraordinary
and unclassifiable work: part biography, part invective, part
Epicurean critique of divination. It casts a uniquely vivid light
on social mores and religious beliefs in the Antonine age, and was
a major influence on Erasmus, Ben Jonson, and Henry Fielding. The
present volume is the first full-length treatment of the Alexander
in English, and includes an extended historical and literary
introduction, a new English translation, and a detailed commentary
on the text. The volume also includes a translation of the
surviving fragments of Oinomaos of Gadara's The Exposure of
Sorcerers, a contemporary Cynic attack on oracular divination. All
Greek is translated throughout.
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