Love And Romantic Sayings

Snake or Fake?

Alexander was born at the beginning of the second century and lived until the 170s. According to his own publicity, he was the prophet of a new god, Glycon, a purveyor of oracles and a healer; to his opponents, he was a charlatan and a conman. But the cult he started appealed to all classes of society and spread throughout the Roman Empire, surviving his own death by perhaps another century, which isn’t bad going if he was nothing but a trickster. The reliability of Lucian’s account is something we’ll return to later, but for fort­eans it has a double interest: apart from the fascinating detail it contains, it shows us a second-century sceptic at work, debunking his subject in a way that would make contemporary hyper-rationalists proud. So, leaving aside any further debate, let’s have Alexander’s story as it appears in Lucian’s essay, Alexander the False Prophet .[2] Alexander is described as tall, long-haired and good-looking, and Lucian accuses him of prostitution as a youth, through which he became apprenticed to a doctor and magician, apparently taught by the Pythagorean philosopher and wonder-worker Apollonius of Tyana (early 1st century–c. AD 98). After the doctor died, Alexander travelled with a chorus-writer from Byzantium nicknamed Cocconas, making a living as quacks, magicians and conmen. Latching on to a rich widow, they headed for Pella in Macedonia, noted for its huge, tame snakes, and bought one for a few coppers. Then, ditching the widow, they decided to set up in the oracle business. Heading for Chalcedon, they buried bronze tablets in the temple of Apollo, announcing that the god and his son, the healing deity Asclepius, would soon be moving to Abonoteichus. When these were ‘discovered’ the news spread like wildfire, particularly to Abonoteichus, where the townsfolk began to build a new temple in readiness. Cocconas stayed behind in Chalcedon, composing dubious oracles, and allegedly died from the bite of a viper; Alexander headed home. His status as a prophet and healer foretold by similar oracles, Alexander arrived claiming descent on his mother’s side from the hero Perseus (he said his father was Podaleirius, son of Asclepius), and chewing soapwort so he foamed at the mouth, an obvious sign of the ‘sacred disease’ epilepsy. Inserting a live baby snake in a blown goose egg, he hid it in a puddle in the found­ations of the new temple.

Cute Boyfriend Quotes

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