Lucien, Alexandre ou le faux prophete
notes by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, edited and translated by Marcel Caster
Anime d’une insatiable curiosite et grand voyageur, Lucien de Samosate decida en 164 de faire un detour par la ville paphlagonienne d’Abonotique pour y observer de pres un nouveau culte oraculaire florissant. Sans doute son dernier ouvrage, l’Alexandre est un document rare qui tient a la fois de l’autobiographie et de l’etude de moeurs: denoncant en Alexandre, prophete du dieu Glycon aux allures de serpent, un simple imposteur, Lucien excelle a demasquer la betise de ses contemporains et relate avec verve les mauvais tours qu’il joua au charlatan. Si le ton est celui d’un pamphlet facetieux, la science est celle d’un sage teinte d’epicurisme et revulse par les simagrees des pythagoriciens, des stoiciens, des cyniques, voire des chretiens. D’Erasme et Rabelais a Renan en passant par Voltaire, nombreux sont les penseurs libres qui ont vu en Lucien, et singulierement dans cet ouvrage, l’une des expressions les plus rigoureuses de la pensee critique.
- By (author) Lucien
- Notes by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat
- Edited and translated by Marcel Caster
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