# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-of-abonoteichus
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:18:18.654Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-of-abonoteichus"
name: "Alexander of Abonoteichus"
slug: "alexander-of-abonoteichus"
description: "Alexander of Abonoteichus, also called Alexander the Paphlagonian, was a Greek mystic and oracle, and the founder of the Glycon cult that briefly achieved wide popularity in the Roman world. The contemporary writer Lucian reports that he was an utter fraud – the god Glycon was supposedly made up of a live snake with an artificial head. The vivid narrative of his career given by Lucian might be taken as fictitious but for the corroboration of certain coins of the emperors Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius and of a statue of Alexander, said by Athenagoras to have stood in the forum of Parium. There is further evidence from inscriptions."
tagline: "Greek mystic and oracle (c. 105 – c. 170)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "105"
deathDate: "170"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.62
  momentum:             3.77142857142857
  historical:           15.31937066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alessandro_di_Abonutico"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paflaqoniyal%C4%B1_Aleksandr"
    title: "Paflaqoniyalı Aleksandr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_d'Abonoticos"
    title: "Alexandre d'Abonoticos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Abonuteichos"
    title: "Alexander von Abonuteichos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%AD%CE%BE%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%91%CE%B2%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Αλέξανδρος Αβωνοτειχίτης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Abonoteichus"
    title: "Alexander of Abonoteichus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_de_Abonutico"
    title: "Alejandro de Abonutico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_d'Abonuteichos"
    title: "Alexandre d'Abonuteichos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_na_Abonoteichus"
    title: "Alexander na Abonoteichus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_dari_Abonouteikhos"
    title: "Aleksander dari Abonouteikhos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_di_Abonutico"
    title: "Alessandro di Abonutico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%B3%B4%EB%85%B8%ED%85%8C%EC%9D%B4%EC%BD%94%EC%8A%A4%EC%9D%98_%EC%95%8C%EB%A0%89%EC%82%B0%EB%93%9C%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "아보노테이코스의 알렉산드로스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_van_Abonoteichus"
    title: "Alexander van Abonoteichus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_z_Abonuteichos"
    title: "Aleksander z Abonuteichos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Abon%C3%BAtico"
    title: "Alexandre de Abonútico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86"
    title: "Александр Пафлагонец"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandros_(Asklepios_k%C3%A2hini)"
    title: "Aleksandros (Asklepios kâhini)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%8C"
    title: "Александр Пафлагонець"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1330773"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump