L’écrin sensible de la parole du dieu. Les stratégies sensuelles de mise en condition des acteurs du rite oraculaire dans l’Alexandre ou le faux prophète de Lucien
Around 145 p. C., Alexander of Abonoteichos established in the margins of the Greco-Roman world one of the most spectacular cults in the history of oracles: the oracle of the new Asclepios, the snake Glycon, described by Lucian as the biggest fraudulent religious “staging” of the ancient times. In t...
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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/9087 |
| Summary: | Around 145 p. C., Alexander of Abonoteichos established in the margins of the Greco-Roman world one of the most spectacular cults in the history of oracles: the oracle of the new Asclepios, the snake Glycon, described by Lucian as the biggest fraudulent religious “staging” of the ancient times. In the eyes of Lucian indeed, nothing soiled more the credibility of this new sanctuary than the strategies set up by the prophet to strike the believers’ senses and arouse a greater fervor for the worship and blinder trust in the words of the new god. It turns out that Lucien describes two different oracular rites, which contrast in their setting by the way they appeal to the believers’ senses: when the first one seems to set up a maximal distance between the consultant and the divinity, the second on the contrary insists on a meeting of all the senses with the god. Through the reconstruction and the analysis of these two rites, the paper shows how a real sensory strategy of the revelation could be set up, in an oracular shrine in the iind century AD. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |