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Clarendon Ancient History Series

Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet

Thonemann, Peter (Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor, Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet

Clarendon Ancient History Series

Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet

Clarendon Ancient History Series: Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet

 

Peter Thonemann provides the first full-length treatment of Lucian's Alexander in English, including a historical and literary introduction 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.


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Beschrijving Clarendon Ancient History Series: Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet

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.


ISBN
9780198868248
Pagina's
252
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Serie
Clarendon Ancient History Series
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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