ancient-serpent: Late 2nd-century statue of Glycon. (National History and Archeology Museum, Constan
ancient-serpent:Late 2nd-century statue of Glycon. (National History and Archeology Museum, Constanţa, Romania)“Glycon was a snake god, according to the satirist Lucian, who provides the primary literary reference to the deity. Lucian claimed Glycon was created in the mid-2nd century by the Greek prophet Alexander of Abonutichus. (in the first Century BC Glycon is referred to by the Roman Poet Horace 65BC - 8BC in his Epistle 1 to Maecenas in his 1st Book of Epistles; …you despair of the muscles of the invincible Glycon…) Lucian was ill-disposed toward the cult, calling Alexander a false-prophet and accusing the whole enterprise of being a hoax: Glycon himself was supposedly a hand puppet.” -- source link
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