Lucian: Alexander or the False Prophet

by Peter Thonemann

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198868243
• ISBN13: 9780198868248
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"