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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Translation


• Commentary


• Appendix 1: Oinomaos of Gadara, The Exposure of Sorcerers


• Appendix 2: Lucian's Works

About the author

Peter Thonemann teaches Greek and Roman history at Wadham College, Oxford. His books include The Birth of Classical Europe (2010, with Simon Price), The Maeander Valley (2011, winner of the Runciman Prize 2012), The Hellenistic Age (Oxford, 2016) and An Ancient Dream Manual (Oxford, 2020). He writes regularly on all aspects of the ancient world for The Times Literary Supplement and The Wall Street Journal.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Thonemann, Peter (Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor Thonemann
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2021
• EAN: 9780198868248
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886824-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Clarendon Ancient History Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; RELIGION / History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts