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Lucian

Lucian

Lucian of Samosata was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Although his native language was probably Syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient Greek.

2 books in collection

Recommended 2007

Dialogues of the Dead

Classics

Recommended 1894

True History

Classics