ABSTRACT
An efficient netw ork linked A bonoteichos with Claros, D idym a and M allos, to w hom A lexander sent clients on a regular basis (8). Possibly the true measure of the success of these oracular establishments is the fury tha t their popularity induced in rationalists ; indeed if O enom aus of G adara and Lucian attacked them so venomously, the reason is that the Greek oracles had become policy-makers again, in a period in which religion form ed one of the m ajor concerns of politics (8a).
