Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet (Clarendon Ancient History Series) - Image 1

£87.51

Oxford University Press Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet (Clarendon Ancient History Series)

Name: Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet (Clarendon Ancient History Series)
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 87.51 GBP
Availability: InStock

Religious

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 1 month ago.

£88 today · all-time low £87 (Aug 2026) · usually £107

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 77 days · 77 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 77 days • 8 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £118 (24 days, 31.2%)

Price range: £87 - £118

Price levels: 8 different prices over 77 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0198868243
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural > Religious
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 May 2021
Listed Since: 18 January 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet (Clarendon Ancient History Series)

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 1 month ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus: 84 (Translated Texts for Historians, 84)

Syria and the USA: Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower (Library of International Relations): v. 56

Bloomsbury - The Golden Road: Ancient India History Book

Media and Public Policy (Praeger Political Communication)

Thomas of Edessa's Explanations of the Nativity and Epiphany (Oxford Early Christian Texts)

Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Persian Christians at the Chinese Court: The Xi'an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East (Library of Medieval Studies)

Latin American Political Yearbook: 2001: 4

Oxford University Press - The Chronography of George Synkellos

Eric Voegelins Asian Political Thought (Political Theory for Today)

Romani Liberation: A Northern Perspective on Emancipatory Struggles and Progress (Critical Romani Studies Book Series - CEU Press)

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance: 04 (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)

Bloomsbury Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions - STEM Book

The Italian City-State: From Commune to Signoria

Seven (1995) DVD - Warner Home Video Thriller

Routledge - The Power of Inner Pictures - Health & Imagination

Double Vision: Literary Palimpsests of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests

Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism (Nottingham Critical Theory)

Ravensburger Das verrueckte Labyrinth 3D - Board Game

Volume 5: Music in the Late Twentieth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music: 05

A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 1 (Michigan Classical Commentaries)

Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World)

Seung-taek Lee: (Un) Bound (Vol I); Non-Material (Vol. 2): 1-2

Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy: Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite