Lucian of samosata biography of michael

2nd-century Syrian satirist and rhetorician

This article is about the second-century satirist and rhetorician. For other uses, see Lucian (disambiguation).

Lucian of Samosata^[a] (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, c.

125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syriansatirist, 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.

Lucian of samosata biography of michael

Although his native language was probably Syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient Greek (mostly in the Attic Greek dialect popular during the Second Sophistic period).

Everything that is known about Lucian's life comes from his own writings,^[1] which are often difficult to interpret because of his extensive use of sarcasm.

According to his oration The Dream, he was the son of a lower middle class family from the city of Samosata along the banks of the Euphrates in the remote Roman p