- Lucian (c.125-180 CE), also known as Lucian of Samosata, was a Roman Rhetorician and Satirist who wrote in Greek, and lived in Syria.
Biography
- After being educated in Athens, he travelled around Gaul and Italy earning a living by giving Public Discourses.
- Around the age of 40, he returned to Samosata in Syria and became a writer, satirising Greek Mythology and Philosophy.
Works
- ‘A True History’ or ‘A True Story’.
- It is considered to be an early science fiction novel, where the characters undertake a journey during which they are taken up by a whirlwind and deposited on the Moon, where a war is taking place between armies from the other Planets.
- It is also thought to be a satire on Greek authors such as Homer and Herodotus.
- The Passing of Peregrinus.
- Symposium.
- Macrobii.
- Kataplous.