Samosata Lucian Lucian of Samosata (125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician, and pamphleteer most remembered for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek manner, in which he frequently mocked superstition, religious traditions, and paranormal belief Although Syriac was most likely his mother tongue, all of his existing works are written in ancient Greek (primarily in the Attic Greek dialect prominent during the Second Sophistic period). Everything we know about Lucian's life is derived from his own writings, which are frequently difficult to read due to his heavy use of sarcasm. He was the son of a lower middle-class family from the city of Samosata on the banks of the Euphrates in the remote Roman province of Syria, according to his oration The Dream. He was apprenticed to his uncle as a young man to become a sculptor, but after an unsuccessful effort, he fled away to pursue an education in Ionia. He may have become a traveling lecturer, visiting universities all around the Roman Empire. After achieving renown and fortune through his teaching, Lucian retired to Athens for a decade, during which he authored the majority of his known writings. He may have been employed as a high-ranking government official in Egypt in his fifties, after which he vanished from history. Read More Read Less
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