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Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet
Engelsk Hardback
Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
252
ISBN-13:
9780198868248
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198868243
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Udg. Dato:
14 maj 2021
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
222mm
Højde:
145mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
14 maj 2021
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