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Lucian of Samosata (c. AD125 – after AD180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed philosophers and priests, speculative beliefs about the nature of the universe, religious practices, and superstitions. Everything that is known about Lucian's life comes from his own writings, which are often difficult to interpret because of his extensive use of sarcasm.
A True Story ( Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Vera Historia or Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD satirizing the outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.
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Lucian of Samosata (c. AD125 – after AD180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed philosophers and priests, speculative beliefs about the nature of the universe, religious practices, and superstitions. Everything that is known about Lucian's life comes from his own writings, which are often difficult to interpret because of his extensive use of sarcasm.
A True Story ( Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Vera Historia or Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD satirizing the outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.
#ancienthistory
#ancientrome
#sciencefiction
#spacetravel
#mythology
#odyssey
#homer
#satire
#lucian
