The First Edition of Lucian of Samosata

1951 ◽  
Vol 14 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Goldschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Lucian Of Samosata

“To the ravens”: Curses from the Oracle of Abonouteichos

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 417-427
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
Market Theory ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Theory Of Religion ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
False Prophet

Abstract This discussion examines the religious conflict between the cult and oracle of Glykon and its Epicurean opponents recorded in the second century CE satire, Alexander the False Prophet, by Lucian of Samosata. Following the market theory of religion approach, these groups can be understood to have been engaged in an intense and escalating struggle over followers, financial support, status, and, ultimately, for survival. For the oracle and Glykon's prophet, Alexander of Abonouteichos, this effort included the use of magical curses, which were deployed against their adversaries. As such, these circumstances represent an as-yet unrecognized agonistic context for cursing to take place in the Graeco-Roman world. Alexander's use of cursing also highlights previously overlooked aspects of his own connections to the practice of magic in Graeco-Roman antiquity.

Charisma, Magic, and Spirituality as Socially Engaged Processes: Lucian’s (circa 120-200) “Alexander the False Prophet” and People’s Accounts of the Supernatural

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-46
Author(s):  
Robert Prus
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
Religious Cult ◽  
False Prophet

Focusing on Alexander the False Prophet and The Lover of Lies, two texts from the Greek poet-philosopher Lucian of Samosata (circa 120-200) of the Classical Roman era, this paper considers (a) charisma, magic, and spirituality as aspects of an interconnected, collectively achieved, developmental process associated with the emergence of a religious cult. Somewhat relatedly, this paper also acknowledges (b) people’s broader, longstanding fascinations with matters that seem incredulous.  Depicting a more sustained realm of prophetic activity and an account of people’s intrigues with the supernatural, Lucian’s texts offer some especially valuable transhistorical and transcultural reference points for the broader sociological study of human knowing and acting. The paper concludes with a consideration of the implications of these matters for the study of people’s involvements in religion and spirituality as humanly-engaged realms of endeavor and interchange.

Lucian (c. AD 120–80)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bracht Branham
Keyword(s):  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
True Story ◽  
Greek Culture

Lucian of Samosata (in ancient Syria) was one of the most original and engaging figures of post-classical Greek culture. He produced a diverse and influential corpus comparable in size to that of Plato (consisting of seventy-six authentic libelli). Formally the dialogue (in both Platonic and Cynic forms) dominates (thirty-six of seventy-three prose works), but there are also satiric narratives, tall tales (for example, A True Story), ‘Cynic’ diatribes (for example, On Mourning), and multifarious lectures, or essays (for example, The Master of Rhetoric) in his singular oeuvre.

Non sum Oedipus, sed Morus

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Elisa Bacchi
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract This article aims to investigate the representative strategies of Moriae Encomium by taking into account the link between Erasmus’ Moria and Thomas More’s portrait as it emerges both from the Encomium Moriae and from the Utopia. Specifically, I will focus on the crucial role of Erasmus’ concept of omnium horarum homo as an ethical and aesthetic model applied to the definition of More’s nature. This approach, which explores the intertextual construction of Morus-Moria’s identity, shall allow me to stress the relevance of the metaphor of mundane masking in Erasmus’ Encomium and More’s Utopia. By considering Erasmus and More’s paradoxical combination of Plato, Cicero and Lucian of Samosata, I will show how the image of the world theatre becomes the symbol of Erasmus’ philosophia civilior based on the rhetorical and moral idea of decorum.

Lucian of Samosata in the Two Hesperias: An Essay in Literary and Cultural Translations

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Joseph V. Ricapito ◽  
Michael O. Zappala
Keyword(s):  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
Cultural Translations

Christians and Pagans

2019 ◽  
pp. 348-365
Author(s):  
John Granger Cook
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
Philosophical Methods ◽  
The New Testament

Before pagan philosophers such as Celsus became interested in Christianity, few pagan authors apparently read any of the Septuagint, if the existent evidence is reliable. Lucian of Samosata was aware of Christian traditions and texts, but probably had not read any of the New Testament. His accusation that Christianity was not based on careful proof reappeared frequently in the critics who followed him such as Galen and Celsus. Porphyry, considered by the Christians to be their most dangerous critic, wrote a denunciation of their faith that still reverberates in biblical studies. Hierocles admired Apollonius of Tyana but not Jesus. Julian, called the Apostate, had read much of the LXX and NT and attacked Christian texts using literary and philosophical methods. Macarius’ anonymous pagan philosopher read the NT closely, but his criticisms were not profound.

The Works of Lucian of Samosata: Complete with Exceptions Specified in the Preface

1906 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 425
Author(s):  
L. E. Strangeways ◽  
H. W. Fowler ◽  
F. G. Fowler ◽  
Lucian
Keyword(s):  
Lucian Of Samosata
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