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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Lucian_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Lucian (disambiguation)">Lucian (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><p><b>Lucian of Samosata</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized <a href="/wiki/Syria_(region)" title="Syria (region)">Syrian</a> <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetorician</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pamphleteer" title="Pamphleteer">pamphleteer</a> who is best known for his characteristic <a href="/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek" title="Tongue-in-cheek">tongue-in-cheek</a> style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Although his native language was probably <a href="/wiki/Syriac_language" title="Syriac language">Syriac</a>, all of his extant works are written entirely in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">ancient Greek</a> (mostly in the <a href="/wiki/Attic_Greek" title="Attic Greek">Attic Greek</a> dialect popular during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Sophistic" title="Second Sophistic">Second Sophistic</a> period). </p><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Lucian</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucian_of_Samosata.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Speculative portrait by William Faithorne"><img alt="Speculative portrait by William Faithorne" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Lucian_of_Samosata.png/220px-Lucian_of_Samosata.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="348" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Lucian_of_Samosata.png/330px-Lucian_of_Samosata.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Lucian_of_Samosata.png/440px-Lucian_of_Samosata.png 2x" data-file-width="970" data-file-height="1536"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Speculative portrait by <a href="/wiki/William_Faithorne" title="William Faithorne">William Faithorne</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 125 AD<br><a href="/wiki/Samosata" class="mw-redirect" title="Samosata">Samosata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_Syria" title="Roman Syria">Roman Syria</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">After 180 AD<br>probably <a href="/wiki/Egypt_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt (Roman province)">Egypt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Novelist" title="Novelist">Novelist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetorician</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_True_History" class="mw-redirect" title="A True History">A True History</a></i></li><li><i>Dialogues of the Dead</i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Lover_of_Lies" title="Lover of Lies">Lover of Lies</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Gods" title="Dialogues of the Gods">Dialogues of the Gods</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Courtesans" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialogues of the Courtesans">Dialogues of the Courtesans</a></i></li><li><i>Alexander the False Prophet</i></li><li><i>Philosophies for Sale</i></li><li><i>The Carousal, or The Lapiths</i></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Everything that is known about Lucian's life comes from his own writings,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which are often difficult to interpret because of his extensive use of sarcasm. According to his oration <i>The Dream</i>, he was the son of a <a href="/wiki/Lower_middle_class" title="Lower middle class">lower middle class</a> family from the city of <a href="/wiki/Samosata" class="mw-redirect" title="Samosata">Samosata</a> along the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates</a> in the remote Roman province of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Syria" title="Roman Syria">Syria</a>. As a young man, he was apprenticed to his uncle to become a sculptor, but, after a failed attempt at sculpting, he ran away to pursue an education in <a href="/wiki/Ionia" title="Ionia">Ionia</a>. He may have become a travelling lecturer and visited universities throughout the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>. After acquiring fame and wealth through his teaching, Lucian finally settled down in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> for a decade, during which he wrote most of his extant works. In his fifties, he may have been appointed as a highly paid government official in <a href="/wiki/Egypt_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt (Roman province)">Egypt</a>, after which point he disappears from the historical record. </p><p>Lucian's works were wildly popular in antiquity, and more than eighty writings attributed to him have survived to the present day, a considerably higher quantity than for most other classical writers. His most famous work is <i><a href="/wiki/A_True_Story" title="A True Story">A True Story</a></i>, a tongue-in-cheek satire against authors who tell incredible tales, which is regarded by some as the earliest known work of <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>. Lucian invented the genre of comic dialogue, a parody of the traditional <a href="/wiki/Socratic_dialogue" title="Socratic dialogue">Socratic dialogue</a>. His dialogue <i><a href="/wiki/Lover_of_Lies" title="Lover of Lies">Lover of Lies</a></i> makes fun of people who believe in the supernatural and contains the oldest known version of "<a href="/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice#Similar_stories" title="The Sorcerer's Apprentice">The Sorcerer's Apprentice</a>". Lucian wrote numerous satires making fun of <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">traditional stories about the gods</a> including <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Gods" title="Dialogues of the Gods">The Dialogues of the Gods</a></i>, <i>Icaromenippus</i>, <i>Zeus Rants</i>, <i>Zeus Catechized</i>, and <i>The Parliament of the Gods</i>. His <i>Dialogues of the Dead</i> focuses on the <a href="/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)" title="Cynicism (philosophy)">Cynic</a> philosophers <a href="/wiki/Diogenes" title="Diogenes">Diogenes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Menippus" title="Menippus">Menippus</a>. <i>Philosophies for Sale</i> and <i>The Carousal, or The Lapiths</i> make fun of various philosophical schools, and <i>The Fisherman or the Dead Come to Life</i> is a defense of this mockery. </p><p>Lucian often ridiculed public figures, such as the Cynic philosopher <a href="/wiki/Peregrinus_Proteus" title="Peregrinus Proteus">Peregrinus Proteus</a> in his letter <i><a href="/wiki/Passing_of_Peregrinus" title="Passing of Peregrinus">The Passing of Peregrinus</a></i> and the fraudulent oracle <a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Abonoteichus" title="Alexander of Abonoteichus">Alexander of Abonoteichus</a> in his treatise <i>Alexander the False Prophet</i>. Lucian's treatise <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Syrian_Goddess" title="On the Syrian Goddess">On the Syrian Goddess</a></i> satirizes cultural distinctions between Greeks and Syrians and is the main source of information about the cult of <a href="/wiki/Atargatis" title="Atargatis">Atargatis</a>. </p><p>Lucian had an enormous, wide-ranging impact on Western literature. Works inspired by his writings include <a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">Thomas More</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Utopia_(More_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Utopia (More book)">Utopia</a></i>, the works of <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" title="François Rabelais">François Rabelais</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Timon_of_Athens" title="Timon of Athens">Timon of Athens</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels" title="Gulliver's Travels">Gulliver's Travels</a></i>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Life"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Life</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Biographical_sources"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Biographical sources</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Background_and_upbringing"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Background and upbringing</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Education_and_career"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Education and career</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Views"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Views</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Works"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Works</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#A_True_Story"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext"><i>A True Story</i></span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Satirical_dialogues"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Satirical dialogues</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Treatises_and_letters"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Treatises and letters</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Pseudo-Lucian"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Pseudo-Lucian</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Legacy"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Legacy</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Byzantine"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Byzantine</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Renaissance_and_Reformation"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Renaissance and Reformation</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Early_modern_period"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Early modern period</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Modern_period"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">Modern period</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Editions"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Editions</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biographical_sources">Biographical sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Biographical sources" class="cdx-button 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href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017328-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A variety of characters with names very similar to Lucian, including "Lukinos", "Lukianos", "Lucius", and "The Syrian" appear throughout Lucian's writings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017328-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These have been frequently interpreted by scholars and biographers as "masks", "alter-egos", or "mouthpieces" of the author.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017328-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daniel S. Richter criticizes the frequent tendency to interpret such "Lucian-like figures" as self-inserts by the author<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017328-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and argues that they are, in fact, merely fictional characters Lucian uses to "think with" when satirizing conventional distinctions between Greeks and Syrians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017328-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He suggests that they are primarily a literary <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">trope</a> used by Lucian to deflect accusations that he as the Syrian author "has somehow outraged the purity of Greek idiom or genre" through his invention of the comic dialogue.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017329_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017329-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> British classicist <a href="/wiki/Donald_Russell_(classicist)" title="Donald Russell (classicist)">Donald Russell</a> states, "A good deal of what Lucian says about himself is no more to be trusted than the voyage to the moon that he recounts so persuasively in the first person in <i>True Stories</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986671-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and warns that "it is foolish to treat [the information he gives about himself in his writings] as autobiography."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986671-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background_and_upbringing">Background and upbringing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Background and upbringing" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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Modern Turkey in yellow.</div></div></div> <p>Lucian was born in the town of Samosata on the banks of the Euphrates on the far eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout200716_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVout200716-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986670-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Samosata had been the capital of the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Commagene" title="Commagene">Commagene</a> until 72 AD when it was annexed by <a href="/wiki/Vespasian" title="Vespasian">Vespasian</a> and became part of the Roman province of Syria.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout2007229_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVout2007229-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986670-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The population of the town was mostly <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Syrian</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Lucian's native tongue was probably Syriac, a form of <a href="/wiki/Middle_Aramaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle Aramaic">Middle Aramaic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986670-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the time when Lucian lived, traditional Greco-Roman religion was in decline and its role in society had become largely ceremonial.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xi–xii_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xi%E2%80%93xii-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a substitute for traditional religion, many people in the Hellenistic world joined <a href="/wiki/Mystery_cults" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystery cults">mystery cults</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">Mysteries of Isis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithraism</a>, the cult of <a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries" title="Eleusinian Mysteries">Eleusinian Mysteries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Superstition had always been common throughout ancient society,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it was especially prevalent during the second century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon199694–115_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon199694%E2%80%93115-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most educated people of Lucian's time adhered to one of the various <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophy" title="Hellenistic philosophy">Hellenistic philosophies</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of which the major ones were <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoicism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Platonism" title="Platonism">Platonism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peripateticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Peripateticism">Peripateticism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhonism" title="Pyrrhonism">Pyrrhonism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Every major town had its own 'university'<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and these 'universities' often employed professional travelling lecturers,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who were frequently paid high sums of money to lecture about various philosophical teachings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii–xiii_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii%E2%80%93xiii-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most prestigious center of learning was the city of <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> in Greece, which had a long intellectual history.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii–xiii_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii%E2%80%93xiii-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Lucian's oration <i>The Dream</i>, which classical scholar <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Casson" title="Lionel Casson">Lionel Casson</a> states he probably delivered as an address upon returning to Samosata at the age of thirty-five or forty after establishing his reputation as a great orator,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian's parents were <a href="/wiki/Lower_middle_class" title="Lower middle class">lower middle class</a> and his uncles owned a local statue-making shop.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian's parents could not afford to give him a higher education,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so, after he completed his elementary schooling, Lucian's uncle took him on as an apprentice and began teaching him how to sculpt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian, however, soon proved to be poor at sculpting and ruined the statue he had been working on.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His uncle beat him, causing him to run off.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian fell asleep and experienced a dream in which he was being fought over by the personifications of Statuary and Culture.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He decided to listen to Culture and thus sought out an education.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881–82_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881%E2%80%9382-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although <i>The Dream</i> has long been treated by scholars as a truthful autobiography of Lucian,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017334_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017334-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> its historical accuracy is questionable at best.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwain199646_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwain199646-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017334_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017334-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986671-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Classicist <a href="/wiki/Simon_Swain" title="Simon Swain">Simon Swain</a> calls it "a fine but rather apocryphal version of Lucian's education"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwain199646_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwain199646-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Karin Schlapbach calls it "ironical".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Richter argues that it is not autobiographical at all, but rather a <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">prolalia</i></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">προλᾰλιά</span></span>), or playful literary work, and a "complicated meditation on a young man's acquisition of <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Paideia" title="Paideia">paideia</a></i></span>" [i.e. education].<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017334_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017334-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Russell dismisses <i>The Dream</i> as entirely fictional, noting, "We recall that <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> too started as sculptor, and <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>'s vision of Elegy and Tragedy (<i><a href="/wiki/Amores_(Ovid)" title="Amores (Ovid)">Amores</a></i> 3.1) is all too similar to Lucian's."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986671-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education_and_career">Education and career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Education and career" class="cdx-button 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a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sidebar{display:none!important}}</style> <p>In Lucian's <i>Double Indictment</i>, the personification of Rhetoric delivers a speech in which she describes the unnamed defendant, who is described as a "Syrian" author of transgressive dialogues, at the time she found him, as a young man wandering in <a href="/wiki/Ionia" title="Ionia">Ionia</a> in <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> "with no idea what he ought to do with himself".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017331-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She describes "the Syrian" at this stage in his career as "still speaking in a barbarous manner and all but wearing a caftan [<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kandys" title="Kandys">kandys</a></i></span>] in the Assyrian fashion".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017331-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rhetoric states that she "took him in hand and ... gave him <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">paideia</i></span>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017331-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scholars have long interpreted the "Syrian" in this work as Lucian himself<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and taken this speech to mean that Lucian ran away to Ionia, where he pursued his education.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Richter, however, argues that the "Syrian" is not Lucian himself, but rather a literary device Lucian uses to subvert literary and ethnic norms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331–332_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017331%E2%80%93332-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ionia was the center of rhetorical learning at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most prestigious universities of rhetoric were in <a href="/wiki/Ephesus" title="Ephesus">Ephesus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Smyrna" title="Smyrna">Smyrna</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it is unlikely that Lucian could have afforded to pay the tuition at either of these schools.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not known how Lucian obtained his education,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but somehow he managed to acquire an extensive knowledge of rhetoric as well as classical literature and philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian mentions in his dialogue <i>The Fisherman</i> that he had initially attempted to apply his knowledge of rhetoric and become a lawyer,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii,_349_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii,_349-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but that he had become disillusioned by the deceitfulness of the trade and resolved to become a philosopher instead.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962349_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962349-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian travelled across the Empire, lecturing throughout Greece, Italy, and <a href="/wiki/Gaul" title="Gaul">Gaul</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–xiv_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%93xiv-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Gaul, Lucian may have held a position as a highly paid government professor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In around 160, Lucian returned to Ionia as a wealthy celebrity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He visited Samosata<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and stayed in the east for several years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is recorded as having been in <a href="/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch">Antioch</a> in either 162 or 163.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In around 165, he bought a house in Athens and invited his parents to come live with him in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian must have married at some point during his travels because in one of his writings, he mentions having a son at this point.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian lived in Athens for around a decade, during which time he gave up lecturing and instead devoted his attention to writing.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was during this decade that Lucian composed nearly all his most famous works.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian wrote exclusively in Greek,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout200716_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVout200716-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Eerdmans_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eerdmans-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> mainly in the Attic Greek popular during the Second Sophistic, but <i>On the Syrian Goddess</i>, which is attributed to Lucian, is written in a highly successful imitation of Herodotus' <a href="/wiki/Ionic_Greek" title="Ionic Greek">Ionic Greek</a>, leading some scholars to believe that Lucian may not be the real author.<sup id="cite_ref-Eerdmans_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eerdmans-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For unknown reasons, Lucian stopped writing around 175 and began travelling and lecturing again.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the reign of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Commodus" title="Commodus">Commodus</a> (180–192), the aging Lucian may have been appointed to a lucrative government position in Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After this point, he disappears from the historical record entirely,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and nothing is known about his death.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Views">Views</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Views" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Epicurus_Louvre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Epicurus_Louvre.jpg/180px-Epicurus_Louvre.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="240" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 240px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Epicurus_Louvre.jpg/180px-Epicurus_Louvre.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="240" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Epicurus_Louvre.jpg/270px-Epicurus_Louvre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Epicurus_Louvre.jpg/360px-Epicurus_Louvre.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Bust of <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a>, an Athenian philosopher whom Lucian greatly admired<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Lucian's philosophical views are difficult to categorize due to his persistent use of irony and sarcasm.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Fisherman</i>, Lucian describes himself as a champion of philosophy<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and throughout his other writings he characterizes philosophy as a morally constructive discipline,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but he is critical of pseudo-philosophers, whom he portrays as greedy, bad-tempered, sexually immoral hypocrites.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798–99_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798%E2%80%9399-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017338–341_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017338%E2%80%93341-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian was not known to be a member of any of the major philosophical schools.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993331_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993331-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798–99_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798%E2%80%9399-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his <i>Philosophies for Sale</i>, he makes fun of members of every school.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017339_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017339-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian was critical of <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoicism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Platonism" title="Platonism">Platonism</a>, because he regarded them as encouraging superstition.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His <i>Nigrinus</i> superficially appears to be a "eulogy of Platonism",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but may, in fact, be satirical, or merely an excuse to ridicule Roman society.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nonetheless, at other times, Lucian writes approvingly of individual philosophies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Turner, although Lucian makes fun of <a href="/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism" title="Philosophical skepticism">Skeptic philosophers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he displays a temperamental inclination towards that philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Edwyn_Bevan" title="Edwyn Bevan">Edwyn Bevan</a> identifies Lucian as a Skeptic,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in his <i>Hermotimus</i>, Lucian rejects all philosophical systems as contradictory and concludes that life is too short to determine which of them comes nearest to the truth, so the best solution is to rely on common sense,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was what the <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhonian_Skeptics" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyrrhonian Skeptics">Pyrrhonian Skeptics</a> advocated. The maxim that "Eyes are better witnesses than ears" is echoed repeatedly throughout several of Lucian's dialogues.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian was skeptical of <a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">oracles</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996125_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996125-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though he was by no means the only person of his time to voice such skepticism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996125_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996125-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian rejected belief in the <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">paranormal</a>, regarding it as <a href="/wiki/Superstition" title="Superstition">superstition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986670-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his dialogue <i>The Lover of Lies</i>, he probably voices some of his own opinions through his character Tychiades,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> perhaps including the declaration by Tychiades that he does not believe in <i><a href="/wiki/Daemones" class="mw-redirect" title="Daemones">daemones</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Apparitional_experience" title="Apparitional experience">phantoms</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">ghosts</a> because he has never seen such things.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tychiades, however, still professes <a href="/wiki/Theism" title="Theism">belief in the gods' existence</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p><i>Dinomachus:</i> 'In other words, you do not believe in the existence of the Gods, since you maintain that cures cannot be wrought by the use of holy names?'<br> <i>Tychiades:</i> 'Nay, say not so, my dear Dinomachus,' I answered; 'the Gods may exist, and these things may yet be lies. I respect the Gods: I see the cures performed by them, I see their beneficence at work in restoring the sick through the medium of the medical faculty and their drugs. <a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a>, and his sons after him, compounded soothing medicines and healed the sick, – without the lion's-skin-and-field-mouse process.'<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Everett_Ferguson" title="Everett Ferguson">Everett Ferguson</a>, Lucian was strongly influenced by the <a href="/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)" title="Cynicism (philosophy)">Cynics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Dream or the Cock</i>, <i>Timon the Misanthrope</i>, <i>Charon or Inspectors</i>, and <i>The Downward Journey or the Tyrant</i> all display Cynic themes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian was particularly indebted to <a href="/wiki/Menippus" title="Menippus">Menippus</a>, a Cynic philosopher and satirist of the third century BC.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017333–334_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017333%E2%80%93334-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian wrote an admiring biography of the philosopher <a href="/wiki/Demonax" title="Demonax">Demonax</a>, who was a philosophical <a href="/wiki/Eclecticism" title="Eclecticism">eclectic</a>, but whose ideology most closely resembled Cynicism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Demonax's main divergence from the Cynics was that he did not disapprove of ordinary life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paul Turner observes that Lucian's <i>Cynicus</i> reads as a straightforward defense of Cynicism,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but also remarks that Lucian savagely ridicules the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus in his <i>Passing of Peregrinus</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian also greatly admired <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whom he describes in <i>Alexander the False Prophet</i> as "truly holy and prophetic".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, in the same dialogue, he praises a book written by Epicurus: </p> <blockquote><p>What blessings that book creates for its readers and what peace, tranquillity, and freedom it engenders in them, liberating them as it does from terrors and apparitions and portents, from vain hopes and extravagant cravings, developing in them intelligence and truth, and truly purifying their understanding, not with torches and <a href="/wiki/Drimia_maritima" title="Drimia maritima">squills</a> [i. e. sea onions] and that sort of foolery, but with straight thinking, truthfulness and frankness.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Lucian had a generally negative opinion of <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> and his historiography, which he viewed as faulty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199851_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199851-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Works" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_Lucian" title="List of works by Lucian">List of works by Lucian</a></div> <p>Over eighty works attributed to Lucian have survived.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoeser200288_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoeser200288-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986671-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These works belong to a diverse variety of styles and genres,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoeser200288_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoeser200288-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981–2_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981%E2%80%932-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671–672_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986671%E2%80%93672-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and include comic dialogues, rhetorical essays, and prose fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoeser200288_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoeser200288-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981–2_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981%E2%80%932-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian's writings were targeted towards a highly educated, upper-class Greek audience<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and make almost constant allusions to Greek cultural history,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leading the classical scholar R. Bracht Branham to label Lucian's highly sophisticated style "the comedy of tradition".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time Lucian's writings were rediscovered during the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, most of the works of literature referenced in them had been lost or forgotten,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982_52-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making it difficult for readers of later periods to understand his works.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982_52-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A_True_Story"><i>A True Story</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: A True Story" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/A_True_Story" title="A True Story">A True Story</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg/180px-William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="252" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1710" data-file-height="2394"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 252px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg/180px-William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="252" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg/270px-William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg/360px-William_Strang_spider_battle_in_1894_True_History.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Illustration from 1894 by <a href="/wiki/William_Strang" title="William Strang">William Strang</a> depicting a battle scene from Book One of Lucian's novel <i><a href="/wiki/A_True_Story" title="A True Story">A True Story</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>Lucian was one of the earliest novelists in <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">Western</a> civilization. In <i><a href="/wiki/A_True_Story" title="A True Story">A True Story</a></i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc">Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα</i></span>), a fictional narrative work written in prose, he parodies some of the fantastic tales told by <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> and also the not-so-fantastic tales from the historian <a href="/wiki/Thucydides" title="Thucydides">Thucydides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobinson197923–25_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobinson197923%E2%80%9325-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He anticipated modern <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> themes including voyages to the moon and Venus, <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life" title="Extraterrestrial life">extraterrestrial life</a>, interplanetary warfare, and artificial life, nearly two millennia before <a href="/wiki/Jules_Verne" title="Jules Verne">Jules Verne</a> and <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>. The novel is often regarded as the earliest known work of science fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrewell200130f_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrewell200130f-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199846_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199846-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998Introduction_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998Introduction-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The novel begins with an explanation that the story is not at all "true" and that everything in it is, in fact, a complete and utter lie.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196213–15_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196213%E2%80%9315-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199851–52_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199851%E2%80%9352-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The narrative begins with Lucian and his fellow travelers journeying out past the <a href="/wiki/Pillars_of_Heracles" class="mw-redirect" title="Pillars of Heracles">Pillars of Heracles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196215_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196215-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853–155_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853%E2%80%93155-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blown off course by a storm, they come to an island with a river of wine filled with fish and bears, a marker indicating that <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> have traveled to this point, and trees that look like women.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196215–17_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196215%E2%80%9317-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853–155_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853%E2%80%93155-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after leaving the island, they are caught up by a whirlwind and taken to the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196217–18_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196217%E2%80%9318-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853–155_64-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853%E2%80%93155-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where they find themselves embroiled in a full-scale war between the king of the Moon and the king of the Sun over colonization of the <a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Morning Star</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196218_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196218-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853–155_64-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853%E2%80%93155-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both armies include bizarre hybrid lifeforms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196218–21_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196218%E2%80%9321-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853–155_64-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853%E2%80%93155-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The armies of the Sun win the war by clouding over the Moon and blocking out the Sun's light.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196222_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196222-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853–155_64-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853%E2%80%93155-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both parties then come to a peace agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196222–23_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196222%E2%80%9323-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian then describes life on the Moon and how it is different from life on Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196223–25_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196223%E2%80%9325-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853–155_64-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199853%E2%80%93155-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After returning to Earth, the adventurers are swallowed by a 200-mile-long whale,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196227–28_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196227%E2%80%9328-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156–177_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156%E2%80%93177-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in whose belly they discover a variety of fish people, whom they wage war against and triumph over.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196227–33_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196227%E2%80%9333-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156–177_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156%E2%80%93177-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They kill the whale by starting a bonfire and escape by propping its mouth open.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196234_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196234-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156–177_73-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156%E2%80%93177-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Next, they encounter a sea of milk, an island of cheese, and the <a href="/wiki/Fortunate_Isles" title="Fortunate Isles">Island of the Blessed</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196235–37_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196235%E2%80%9337-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156–178_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998156%E2%80%93178-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, Lucian meets the heroes of the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>, other mythical men and animals, as well as Homer and <a href="/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196235–45_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196235%E2%80%9345-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178–232_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178%E2%80%93232-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They find sinners being punished, the worst of them being the ones who had written books with lies and fantasies, including <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ctesias" title="Ctesias">Ctesias</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196246_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196246-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178–232_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178%E2%80%93232-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After leaving the Island of the Blessed, they deliver a letter to <a href="/wiki/Calypso_(mythology)" title="Calypso (mythology)">Calypso</a> given to them by <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a> explaining that he wishes he had stayed with her so he could have lived eternally.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196245–49_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196245%E2%80%9349-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178–232_79-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178%E2%80%93232-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They then discover a chasm in the Ocean, but eventually sail around it, discover a far-off continent and decide to explore it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196249–54_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196249%E2%80%9354-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178–232_79-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998178%E2%80%93232-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book ends abruptly with Lucian stating that their future adventures will be described in the upcoming sequels,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196254_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196254-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998232–233_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour1998232%E2%80%93233-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a promise which a disappointed <i><a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">scholiast</a></i> described as "the biggest lie of all".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson196257_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson196257-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Satirical_dialogues">Satirical dialogues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Satirical dialogues" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>In his <i>Double Indictment</i>, Lucian declares that his proudest literary achievement is the invention of the "satirical dialogue",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199842_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199842-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was modeled on the earlier <a href="/wiki/Platonic_dialogue" class="mw-redirect" title="Platonic dialogue">Platonic dialogue</a>, but was comedic in tone rather than philosophical.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199842_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199842-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>prolaliai</i> to his <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Courtesans" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialogues of the Courtesans">Dialogues of the Courtesans</a></i> suggests that Lucian acted out his dialogues himself as part of a comedic routine.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006275_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006275-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian's <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialogues of the Dead">Dialogues of the Dead</a></i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc">Νεκρικοὶ Διάλογοι</i></span>) is a satirical work centering around the <a href="/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)" title="Cynicism (philosophy)">Cynic</a> philosophers <a href="/wiki/Diogenes" title="Diogenes">Diogenes</a> and his pupil <a href="/wiki/Menippus" title="Menippus">Menippus</a>, who lived modestly while they were alive and are now living comfortably in the abysmal conditions of the Underworld, while those who had lived lives of luxury are in torment when faced by the same conditions.<sup id='cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacleod1961[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_January_2024]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(January_2024)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_88-0' class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacleod1961%5B%5BCategory:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_January_2024%5D%5D<sup_class=%22noprint_Inline-Template_%22_style=%22white-space:nowrap;%22>&#91;<i>%5B%5BWikipedia:Citing_sources%7C<span_title=%22This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(January_2024)%22>page&nbsp;needed</span>%5D%5D</i>&#93;</sup>-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dialogue draws on earlier literary precursors, including the <i><a href="/wiki/Nekyia" title="Nekyia">nekyia</a></i> in Book XI of Homer's <i>Odyssey</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199843–44_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199843%E2%80%9344-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but also adds new elements not found in them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199844_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199844-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Homer's <i>nekyia</i> describes transgressors against the gods being punished for their sins, but Lucian embellished this idea by having cruel and greedy persons also be punished.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199844_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199844-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg/180px-Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="396" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1300" data-file-height="2860"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 396px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg/180px-Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="396" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg/270px-Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg/360px-Statue_Hermes_Chiaramonti.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>, the messenger of the gods, is a major recurring character throughout many of Lucian's dialogues.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199888_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199888-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In his dialogue <i><a href="/wiki/Lover_of_Lies" title="Lover of Lies">The Lover of Lies</a></i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc">Φιλοψευδὴς</i></span>), Lucian satirizes belief in the <a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernatural</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">paranormal</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden20071–3_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden20071%E2%80%933-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> through a <a href="/wiki/Framing_story" class="mw-redirect" title="Framing story">framing story</a> in which the main narrator, a skeptic named Tychiades, goes to visit an elderly friend named Eukrates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden20073–13_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden20073%E2%80%9313-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Eukrates's house, he encounters a large group of guests who have recently gathered together due to Eukrates suddenly falling ill.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden20073–13_93-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden20073%E2%80%9313-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other guests offer Eukrates a variety of <a href="/wiki/Folk_remedies" class="mw-redirect" title="Folk remedies">folk remedies</a> to help him recover.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden20073–13_93-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden20073%E2%80%9313-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Tychiades objects that such remedies do not work, the others all laugh at him<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden20073–13_93-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden20073%E2%80%9313-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and try to persuade him to believe in the supernatural by telling him stories, which grow increasingly ridiculous as the conversation progresses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden20073–13_93-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden20073%E2%80%9313-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the last stories they tell is "<a href="/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice" title="The Sorcerer's Apprentice">The Sorcerer's Apprentice</a>", which the German playwright <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a> later adapted into a famous ballad.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden20071_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden20071-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELuck2001141_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELuck2001141-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian frequently made fun of philosophers<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and no school was spared from his mockery.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the dialogue <i>Philosophies for Sale</i>, Lucian creates an imaginary slave market in which <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> puts famous philosophers up for sale, including Pythagoras, Diogenes, <a href="/wiki/Heraclitus" title="Heraclitus">Heraclitus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chrysippus" title="Chrysippus">Chrysippus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pyrrho" title="Pyrrho">Pyrrho</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962314–333_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962314%E2%80%93333-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> each of whom attempts to persuade the customers to buy his philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962314–333_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962314%E2%80%93333-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Banquet, or Lapiths</i>, Lucian points out the hypocrisies of representatives from all the major philosophical schools.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Fisherman, or the Dead Come to Life</i>, Lucian defends his other dialogues by comparing the venerable philosophers of ancient times with their unworthy contemporary followers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian was often particularly critical of people who pretended to be philosophers when they really were not<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his dialogue <i>The Runaways</i> portrays an imposter Cynic as the antithesis of true philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His <i>Symposium</i> is a parody of Plato's <i><a href="/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)" title="Symposium (Plato)">Symposium</a></i> in which, instead of discussing the nature of love, the philosophers get drunk, tell smutty tales, argue relentlessly over whose school is the best, and eventually break out into a full-scale brawl.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1976146–148_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1976146%E2%80%93148-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Icaromenippus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Icaromenippus (page does not exist)">Icaromenippus</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikaromenippos" class="extiw" title="fi:Ikaromenippos">fi</a>]</span></i>, the Cynic philosopher Menippus fashions a set of wings for himself in imitation of the mythical <a href="/wiki/Icarus" title="Icarus">Icarus</a> and flies to Heaven,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199877–79_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199877%E2%80%9379-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he receives a guided tour from Zeus himself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199879_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199879-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dialogue ends with Zeus announcing his decision to destroy all philosophers, since all they do is bicker, though he agrees to grant them a temporary reprieve until spring.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199879–80_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199879%E2%80%9380-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Nektyomanteia</i> is a dialogue written in parallel to <i>Icaromenippus</i> in which, rather than flying to Heaven, Menippus descends to the underworld to consult the prophet <a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1976139–140_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1976139%E2%80%93140-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian wrote numerous dialogues making fun of traditional Greek stories about the gods.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199876–77_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199876%E2%80%9377-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Gods" title="Dialogues of the Gods">Dialogues of the Gods</a></i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc">Θεῶν Διάλογοι</i></span>) consists of numerous short vignettes parodying a variety of the scenes from <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199876_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199876-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dialogues portray the gods as comically weak and prone to all the foibles of human emotion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199876–77_102-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199876%E2%80%9377-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zeus in particular is shown to be a "feckless ruler" and a serial adulterer.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199877_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199877-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian also wrote several other works in a similar vein, including <i>Zeus Catechized</i>, <i>Zeus Rants</i>, and <i>The Parliament of the Gods</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout all his dialogues, Lucian displays a particular fascination with <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>, the messenger of the gods,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199888_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199888-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who frequently appears as a major character in the role of an intermediary who travels between worlds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199888_91-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199888-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Dialogues of the Courtesans</i> is a collection of short dialogues involving various courtesans.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006274–294_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006274%E2%80%93294-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962301–311_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962301%E2%80%93311-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This collection is unique as one of the only surviving works of Greek literature to mention female homosexuality.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006274–275_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006274%E2%80%93275-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also unusual for mixing Lucian's characters from other dialogues with stock characters from <a href="/wiki/New_Comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="New Comedy">New Comedy</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006277_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006277-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> over half of the men mentioned in <i>Dialogues of the Courtesans</i> are also mentioned in Lucian's other dialogues,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006277_108-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006277-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but almost all of the courtesans themselves are characters borrowed from the plays of <a href="/wiki/Menander" title="Menander">Menander</a> and other comedic playwrights.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006277_108-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGilhuly2006277-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Treatises_and_letters">Treatises and letters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Treatises and letters" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled 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class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Glycon.JPG/172px-Glycon.JPG" decoding="async" width="172" height="188" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1963" data-file-height="2147"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 172px;height: 188px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Glycon.JPG/172px-Glycon.JPG" data-alt="" data-width="172" data-height="188" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Glycon.JPG/258px-Glycon.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Glycon.JPG/344px-Glycon.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Statue of the snake-god <a href="/wiki/Glycon" title="Glycon">Glycon</a>, invented by the oraclemonger <a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Abonoteichus" title="Alexander of Abonoteichus">Alexander of Abonoteichus</a>, whom Lucian satirizes in his treatise <i>Alexander the False Prophet</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon199694–115_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon199694%E2%80%93115-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:254px;max-width:254px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:188px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Atargatis,_Nabatean,_c.100_AD,_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg/252px-Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="252" height="189" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 252px;height: 189px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg/252px-Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg" data-alt="" data-width="252" data-height="189" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg/378px-Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg/504px-Atargatis%2C_Nabatean%2C_c.100_AD%2C_Jordan_Archaeological_Museum.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Nabataean" class="mw-redirect" title="Nabataean">Nabataean</a> carving from <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 100 AD depicting the goddess <a href="/wiki/Atargatis" title="Atargatis">Atargatis</a>, the subject of Lucian's treatise <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Syrian_Goddess" title="On the Syrian Goddess">On the Syrian Goddess</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></div></div></div> <p>Lucian's treatise <i>Alexander the False Prophet</i> describes the rise of Alexander of Abonoteichus, a charlatan who claimed to be the prophet of the serpent-god <a href="/wiki/Glycon" title="Glycon">Glycon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon199694–115_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon199694%E2%80%93115-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though the account is satirical in tone,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it seems to be a largely accurate report of the Glycon cult<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and many of Lucian's statements about the cult have been confirmed through archaeological evidence, including coins, statues, and inscriptions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114_109-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian describes his own meeting with Alexander in which he posed as a friendly philosopher,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114_109-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but, when Alexander invited him to kiss his hand, Lucian bit it instead.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114_109-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian reports that, aside from himself, the only others who dared challenge Alexander's reputation as a true prophet were the <a href="/wiki/Epicureans" class="mw-redirect" title="Epicureans">Epicureans</a> (whom he lauds as heroes) and the Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114_109-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996114-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian's treatise <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Syrian_Goddess" title="On the Syrian Goddess">On the Syrian Goddess</a></i> is a detailed description of the cult of the Syrian goddess <a href="/wiki/Atargatis" title="Atargatis">Atargatis</a> at Hierapolis (now <a href="/wiki/Manbij" title="Manbij">Manbij</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is written in a faux-Ionic Greek and imitates the ethnographic methodology of the Greek historian Herodotus,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288_46-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which Lucian elsewhere derides as faulty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288_46-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For generations, many scholars doubted the authenticity of <i>On the Syrian Goddess</i> because it seemed too genuinely reverent to have really been written by Lucian.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017336_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017336-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More recently, scholars have come to recognize the book as satirical and have restored its Lucianic authorship.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017336_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017336-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the treatise, Lucian satirizes the arbitrary cultural distinctions between "Greeks" and "Assyrians" by emphasizing the manner in which Syrians have adopted Greek customs and thereby effectively become "Greeks" themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013289–292_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013289%E2%80%93292-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The anonymous narrator of the treatise initially seems to be a Greek Sophist,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013292_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013292-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but, as the treatise progresses, he reveals himself to actually be a native Syrian.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013292–293_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013292%E2%80%93293-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scholars dispute whether the treatise is an accurate description of Syrian cultural practices because very little is known about Hierapolis other than what is recorded in <i>On the Syrian Goddess</i> itself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288_46-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coins minted in the late fourth century BC, municipal decrees from <a href="/wiki/Seleucid" class="mw-redirect" title="Seleucid">Seleucid</a> rulers, and a late Hellenistic relief carving have confirmed Lucian's statement that the city's original name was <i>Manbog</i> and that the city was closely associated with the cults of Atargatis and <a href="/wiki/Hadad" title="Hadad">Hadad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288_46-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013288-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Jewish <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> later listed the temple at Hierapolis as one of the five most important pagan temples in the Near East.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013289_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013289-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Macrobii</i> ("Long-Livers") is an essay about famous philosophers who lived for many years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKechagia2016183–184_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKechagia2016183%E2%80%93184-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It describes how long each of them lived, and gives an account of each of their deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKechagia2016183–184_115-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKechagia2016183%E2%80%93184-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his treatises <i>Teacher of Rhetoric</i> and <i>On Salaried Posts</i>, Lucian criticizes the teachings of master rhetoricians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His treatise <i>On Dancing</i> is a major source of information about Greco-Roman dance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201882–84_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201882%E2%80%9384-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In it, he describes dance as an act of <i><a href="/wiki/Mimesis" title="Mimesis">mimesis</a></i> ("imitation")<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201882_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201882-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and rationalizes the myth of <a href="/wiki/Proteus" title="Proteus">Proteus</a> as being nothing more than an account of a highly skilled Egyptian dancer.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201882–84_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201882%E2%80%9384-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote about visual arts in <i>Portraits</i> and <i>On Behalf of Portraits</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian's biography of the philosopher <a href="/wiki/Demonax" title="Demonax">Demonax</a> eulogizes him as a great philosopher<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and portrays him as a hero of <i><a href="/wiki/Parrhesia" title="Parrhesia">parrhesia</a></i> ("boldness of speech").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332_43-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993332-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his treatise, <i><a href="/wiki/How_to_Write_History" title="How to Write History">How to Write History</a></i>, Lucian criticizes the historical methodology used by writers such as Herodotus and Ctesias,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011489–491_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011489%E2%80%93491-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who wrote vivid and self-indulgent descriptions of events they had never actually seen.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011489–491_118-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011489%E2%80%93491-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, Lucian argues that the historian never embellish his stories and should place his commitment to accuracy above his desire to entertain his audience.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011491_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011491-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also argues the historian should remain absolutely impartial and tell the events as they really happened, even if they are likely to cause disapproval.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011491_119-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011491-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian names Thucydides as a specific example of a historian who models these virtues.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011491_119-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKempshall2011491-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his satirical letter <i><a href="/wiki/Passing_of_Peregrinus" title="Passing of Peregrinus">Passing of Peregrinus</a></i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc">Περὶ τῆς Περεγρίνου Τελευτῆς</i></span>), Lucian describes the death of the controversial Cynic philosopher <a href="/wiki/Peregrinus_Proteus" title="Peregrinus Proteus">Peregrinus Proteus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who had publicly <a href="/wiki/Self-immolation" title="Self-immolation">immolated himself</a> on a pyre at the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games" title="Ancient Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a> of AD 165.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The letter is historically significant because it preserves one of the earliest pagan evaluations of Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058–59_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200058%E2%80%9359-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the letter, one of Lucian's characters delivers a speech ridiculing Christians for their perceived credulity and ignorance,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200059_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200059-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but he also affords them some level of respect on account of their morality.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200059_121-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_Voorst200059-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the letter <i>Against the Ignorant Book Collector</i>, Lucian ridicules the common practice whereby Near Easterners collect massive libraries of Greek texts for the sake of appearing "cultured", but without actually reading any of them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013191–192_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrade2013191%E2%80%93192-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWallace-Hadrill198379_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallace-Hadrill198379-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pseudo-Lucian">Pseudo-Lucian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Pseudo-Lucian" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Some of the writings attributed to Lucian, such as the <i><a href="/wiki/Amores_(Lucian)" title="Amores (Lucian)">Amores</a></i> and the <i>Ass</i>, are usually not considered genuine works of Lucian and are normally cited under the name of "Pseudo-Lucian".<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout200749_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVout200749-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Ass</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc">Λούκιος ἢ ῎Oνος</i></span>) is probably a summarized version of a story by Lucian, and contains largely the same basic plot elements as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Golden Ass</a></i> (or <i>Metamorphoses</i>) of <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a>, but with fewer inset tales and a different ending.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Amores</i> is usually dated to the third or fourth centuries based on stylistic grounds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout200749_125-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVout200749-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legacy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Byzantine">Byzantine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Byzantine" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Lucian is mentioned only sporadically between his death and the ninth century, even among pagan authors.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMessis202114_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMessis202114-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first author to mention him is <a href="/wiki/Lactantius" title="Lactantius">Lactantius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016209_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016209-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is made a character in the sixth-century letters of <a href="/wiki/Aristaenetus" title="Aristaenetus">Aristaenetus</a>. In the same century, portions of his <i>On Slander</i> were translated into <a href="/wiki/Syriac_language" title="Syriac language">Syriac</a> as part of a monastic compendium.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMessis202115_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMessis202115-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was reassessed positively in the ninth century by the first generation of Byzantine humanists, such as <a href="/wiki/Leo_the_Mathematician" title="Leo the Mathematician">Leo the Mathematician</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Basil_of_Adada&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Basil of Adada (page does not exist)">Basil of Adada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Photios" class="mw-redirect" title="Photios">Photios</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMessis202115–16_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMessis202115%E2%80%9316-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Photius)" title="Bibliotheca (Photius)">Bibliotheca</a></i>, Photios notes that Lucian "ridicules pagan things in almost all his texts", is never serious and never reveals his own opinion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMessis202116_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMessis202116-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the tenth century, Lucian was known in some circles as an anti-Christian writer, as seen in the works of <a href="/wiki/Arethas_of_Caesarea" title="Arethas of Caesarea">Arethas of Caesarea</a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Suda" title="Suda">Suda</a></i> encyclopedia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobinson197968_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobinson197968-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The authors of the <i>Suda</i> concludes that Lucian's soul is burning in <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a> for his negative remarks about Christians in the <i>Passing of Peregrinus</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In general, however, the Byzantine reception of Lucian was positive.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobinson197968_132-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobinson197968-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was perhaps the only ancient author openly hostile to Christianity to be received positively by the Byzantines.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016209_128-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016209-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was regarded as not merely a pagan, but an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016210_134-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016210-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even so, "Lucian the atheist gave way to Lucian the master of style."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016217_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016217-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the eleventh century,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMessis202122_136-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMessis202122-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was a part of the school curriculum.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobinson197968_132-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobinson197968-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016212_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016212-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There was a "Lucianic revival" in the twelfth century. The preeminent Lucianic author of this period, who imitated Lucian's style in his own works, was <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Prodromos" title="Theodore Prodromos">Theodore Prodromos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016218_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarciniak2016218-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Norman%E2%80%93Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_culture" title="Norman–Arab–Byzantine culture">Norman–Arab–Byzantine culture</a> of twelfth-century <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sicily" title="Kingdom of Sicily">Sicily</a>, Lucian influenced the Greek authors <a href="/wiki/Philagathus_of_Cerami" title="Philagathus of Cerami">Philagathus of Cerami</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eugenius_of_Palermo" title="Eugenius of Palermo">Eugenius of Palermo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMessis202127_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMessis202127-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Renaissance_and_Reformation">Renaissance and Reformation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Renaissance and Reformation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg/300px-Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="201" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2009"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 300px;height: 201px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg/300px-Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg" data-width="300" data-height="201" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg/450px-Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg/600px-Sandro_Botticelli_021.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Calumny_of_Apelles_(Botticelli)" title="Calumny of Apelles (Botticelli)">The Calumny of Apelles</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli" title="Sandro Botticelli">Sandro Botticelli</a>, based on a description of a painting by the Greek painter <a href="/wiki/Apelles_of_Kos" class="mw-redirect" title="Apelles of Kos">Apelles of Kos</a> found in Lucian's <i><a href="/wiki/Ekphrasis" title="Ekphrasis">ekphrasis</a></i> <i>On Calumny</i></figcaption></figure> <p>In the West, Lucian's writings were mostly forgotten during the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010544_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010544-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982–3_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982%E2%80%933-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When they were rediscovered in the West around 1400, they immediately became popular with the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_humanists" class="mw-redirect" title="Renaissance humanists">Renaissance humanists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010544_140-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010544-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982–3_141-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982%E2%80%933-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1400, there were just as many Latin translations of the works of Lucian as there were for the writings of <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010544_140-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010544-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By ridiculing <a href="/wiki/Plutocracy" title="Plutocracy">plutocracy</a> as absurd, Lucian helped facilitate one of Renaissance humanism's most basic themes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His <i>Dialogues of the Dead</i> were especially popular and were widely used for moral instruction.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982–3_141-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982%E2%80%933-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result of this popularity, Lucian's writings had a profound influence on writers from the Renaissance and the <a href="/wiki/Early_modern_Europe" title="Early modern Europe">Early Modern period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010862–865_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010862%E2%80%93865-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii–xviii_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii%E2%80%93xviii-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982–3_141-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19982%E2%80%933-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many early modern European writers adopted Lucian's lighthearted tone, his technique of relating a fantastic voyage through a familiar dialogue, and his trick of constructing proper names with deliberately humorous etymological meanings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>, Lucian provided literary precedent for writers making fun of <a href="/wiki/Catholic_clergy" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic clergy">Catholic clergy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus" class="mw-redirect" title="Desiderius Erasmus">Desiderius Erasmus</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/In_Praise_of_Folly" title="In Praise of Folly">Encomium Moriae</a></i> (1509) displays Lucianic influences.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Perhaps the most notable example of Lucian's impact in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was on the French writer <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" title="François Rabelais">François Rabelais</a>, particularly in his <a href="/wiki/Pentalogy" title="Pentalogy">set of five novels</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Gargantua_and_Pantagruel" title="Gargantua and Pantagruel">Gargantua and Pantagruel</a></i>, which was first published in 1532. Rabelais also is thought to be responsible for a primary introduction of Lucian to the French <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> and beyond through his translations of Lucian's works.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh199871_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh199871-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian's <i>True Story</i> inspired both <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas More">Sir Thomas More</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Utopia_(More_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Utopia (More book)">Utopia</a></i> (1516)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels" title="Gulliver's Travels">Gulliver's Travels</a></i> (1726).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010510_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh2010510-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli" title="Sandro Botticelli">Sandro Botticelli</a>'s paintings <i><a href="/wiki/Calumny_of_Apelles_(Botticelli)" title="Calumny of Apelles (Botticelli)">The Calumny of Apelles</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Pallas_and_the_Centaur" title="Pallas and the Centaur">Pallas and the Centaur</a></i> are both based on descriptions of paintings found in Lucian's works.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii–xviii_143-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii%E2%80%93xviii-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian's prose narrative <i>Timon the Misanthrope</i> was the inspiration for William Shakespeare's tragedy <i><a href="/wiki/Timon_of_Athens" title="Timon of Athens">Timon of Athens</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii_147-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the scene from <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> with the gravediggers echoes several scenes from <i>Dialogues of the Dead</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii_147-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a>'s famous verse "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" is a paraphrase of Lucian:<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>ΕΡΜΗΣ: Τουτὶ τὸ κρανίον ἡ Ἑλένη ἐστίν.<br> </p><p>ΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΣ: Εἶτα διὰ τοῦτο αἱ χίλιαι νῆες ἐπληρώθησαν ἐξ ἁπάσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος καὶ τοσοῦτοι ἔπεσον Ἕλληνές τε καὶ βάρβαροι καὶ τοσαῦται πόλεις ἀνάστατοι γεγόνασιν; <br><br> Hermes: This skull is Helen.<br> </p><p> Menippos: And for this a thousand ships carried warriors from every part of Greece, Greeks and barbarians were slain, and cities made desolate?</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead, XVIII</cite></div></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a> called Lucian a "contemplative atheist".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_modern_period">Early modern period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Early modern period" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg/220px-Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2373" data-file-height="3545"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 329px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg/220px-Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="329" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg/330px-Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg/440px-Nordkirchen-100415-12241-Lucian.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Monument commemorating Lucian of Samosata from <a href="/wiki/Nordkirchen" title="Nordkirchen">Nordkirchen</a>, Germany</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Fielding" title="Henry Fielding">Henry Fielding</a>, the author of <i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling" title="The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling">The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling</a></i> (1749), owned a complete set of Lucian's writings in nine volumes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He deliberately imitated Lucian in his <i>Journey from This World and into the Next</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863_152-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Jonathan_Wild,_the_Great" title="The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great">The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great</a></i> (1743), he describes Lucian as "almost ... like the true father of humour"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863_152-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and lists him alongside <a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a> and Jonathan Swift as a true master of satire.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863_152-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Convent Garden Journal</i>, Fielding directly states in regard to Lucian that he had modeled his style "upon that very author".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863_152-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010863-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Boileau-Despr%C3%A9aux" title="Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux">Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_F%C3%A9nelon" title="François Fénelon">François Fénelon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Le_Bovier_de_Fontenelle" title="Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle">Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a> all wrote adaptations of Lucian's <i>Dialogues of the Dead</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Turner, Voltaire's <i><a href="/wiki/Candide" title="Candide">Candide</a></i> (1759) displays the characteristically Lucianic theme of "refuting philosophical theory by reality".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Voltaire also wrote <i>The Conversation between Lucian, Erasmus and Rabelais in the Elysian Fields</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a dialogue in which he treats Lucian as "one of his masters in the strategy of intellectual revolution".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot">Denis Diderot</a> drew inspiration from the writings of Lucian in his <i>Socrates Gone Mad; or, the Dialogues of Diogenes of Sinope</i> (1770)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864_153-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his <i>Conversations in Elysium</i> (1780).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864_153-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian appears as one of two speakers in Diderot's dialogue <i>Peregrinus Proteus</i> (1791), which was based on <i>The Passing of Peregrinus</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864_153-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lucian's <i>True Story</i> inspired <a href="/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac" title="Cyrano de Bergerac">Cyrano de Bergerac</a>, whose writings later served as inspiration for <a href="/wiki/Jules_Verne" title="Jules Verne">Jules Verne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii_147-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xvii-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German satirist <a href="/wiki/Christoph_Martin_Wieland" title="Christoph Martin Wieland">Christoph Martin Wieland</a> was the first person to translate the complete works of Lucian into <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864_153-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he spent his entire career adapting the ideas behind Lucian's writings for a contemporary German audience.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864_153-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a> admired Lucian as a "very moral writer"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and quoted him with reverence when discussing ethics or religion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hume read Lucian's <i>Kataplous</i> or <i>Downward Journey</i> when he was on his deathbed.<sup id="cite_ref-Forfurther_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forfurther-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a> references Lucian in Chapter 5 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Confidence-Man" title="The Confidence-Man">The Confidence-Man</a></i>, Book 26 of <a href="/wiki/Pierre:_or,_The_Ambiguities" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre: or, The Ambiguities"><i>Pierre</i></a>, and Chapter 13 of <i><a href="/wiki/Israel_Potter" title="Israel Potter">Israel Potter</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_period">Modern period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Modern period" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>'s epithet "<a href="/wiki/Phallus" title="Phallus">Phallus</a>-Worship", which he used to describe the contemporary literature of French writers such as <a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac" title="Honoré de Balzac">Honoré de Balzac</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Sand" title="George Sand">George Sand</a>, was inspired by his reading of Lucian.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Kataplous, or Downward Journey</i> also served as the source for <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>'s concept of the <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch" title="Übermensch">Übermensch</a></i> or <i>Overman</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Forfurther_154-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forfurther-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nietzsche declaration of a "new and super-human way of laughing – at the expense of everything serious!" echoes the exact wording of <a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a>'s final advice to the eponymous hero of Lucian's dialogue <i>Menippus</i>: "Laugh a great deal and take nothing seriously."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864_153-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBranham2010864-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Professional philosophical writers since then have generally ignored Lucian,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Turner comments that "perhaps his spirit is still alive in those who, like <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, are prepared to flavor philosophy with wit."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many 19th century and early 20th century classicists viewed Lucian's works negatively.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German classicist <a href="/wiki/Eduard_Norden" title="Eduard Norden">Eduard Norden</a> admitted that he had, as a foolish youth, wasted time reading the works of Lucian,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but, as an adult, had come to realize that Lucian was nothing more than an "Oriental without depth or character ... who has no soul and degrades the most soulful language".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Helm" title="Rudolf Helm">Rudolf Helm</a>, one of the leading scholars on Lucian in the early twentieth century, labelled Lucian as a "thoughtless Syrian" who "possesses none of the soul of a tragedian"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and compared him to the poet <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Heine" title="Heinrich Heine">Heinrich Heine</a>, who was known as the "mockingbird in the German poetry forest".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 1906 publication <i>Lukian und Menipp</i> ("Lucian and Menippus"), Helm argued that Lucian's claims of generic originality, especially his claim of having invented the comic dialogue, were actually lies intended to cover up his almost complete dependence on <a href="/wiki/Menippus" title="Menippus">Menippus</a>, whom he argued was the true inventor of the genre.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017333_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017333-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lucian's Syrian identity received renewed attention in the early twenty-first century as Lucian became seen as what Richter calls "a sort of Second Sophistic answer to early twenty-first-century questions about cultural and ethnic hybridity".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Richter states that <a href="/wiki/Postcolonialism" title="Postcolonialism">Postcolonial critics</a> have come to embrace Lucian as "an early imperial paradigm of the 'ethno-cultural hybrid.<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017327_133-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017327-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Editions">Editions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Editions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9jRAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9"><i>The Works of Lucian from the Greek</i></a>. Vol. I. Translated by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Francklin" title="Thomas Francklin">Francklin, Thomas</a>. London: T Cadell. 1780 – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Works+of+Lucian+from+the+Greek&rft.place=London&rft.pub=T+Cadell&rft.date=1780&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9jRAAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPP9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucian" class="Z3988"></span>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ubxK-nnAs54C&pg=PP2">volume II</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2dgpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP13">volume III</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hsSBd7H7RyQC&pg=PA1">volume IV</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lucianofsamosata01luciuoft/page/n5/mode/2up"><i>Lucian of Samosata from the Greek with the Comments and Illustrations of WIELAND and Others</i></a>. Vol. I. Translated by <a href="/wiki/William_Tooke" title="William Tooke">Tooke, William</a>. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1820<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 January</span> 2021</span> – via <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lucian+of+Samosata+from+the+Greek+with+the+Comments+and+Illustrations+of+WIELAND+and+Others&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Longman%2C+Hurst%2C+Rees%2C+Orme%2C+and+Brown&rft.date=1820&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flucianofsamosata01luciuoft%2Fpage%2Fn5%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucian" class="Z3988"></span>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lucianofsamosata02luciuoft">volume II</a>.</li> <li><i>Lucian's True History</i>, with illustrations by <a href="/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley" title="Aubrey Beardsley">Aubrey Beardsley</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Strang" title="William Strang">William Strang</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Benwell_Clark" title="Joseph Benwell Clark">J. B. Clark</a>, privately printed in an edition of 251 copies, 1894.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksoflucianofs01luci/page/n4"><i>The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Complete with exceptions specified in the preface</i></a>. Vol. I. Translated by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Watson_Fowler" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Watson Fowler">Fowler, H. W.</a>; <a href="/wiki/Francis_George_Fowler" title="Francis George Fowler">Fowler, F. G.</a> Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1905.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Works+of+Lucian+of+Samosata.+Complete+with+exceptions+specified+in+the+preface&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Clarendon+Press&rft.date=1905&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fworksoflucianofs01luci%2Fpage%2Fn4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucian" class="Z3988"></span>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksoflucianofs02luci/page/n4">volume II</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksoflucianofs03luci">volume III</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worksoflucianofs04luci">volume IV</a>.</li> <li><i>Lucian with an English translation</i> (<a href="/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library" title="Loeb Classical Library">Loeb Classical Library</a>), in 8 volumes: vols. 1–5 ed. <a href="/wiki/Austin_Morris_Harmon" title="Austin Morris Harmon">Austin Morris Harmon</a> (1913, 1915, 1921, 1925, 1936); vol. 6 ed. K. Kilburn (1959); vol. 7–8 ed. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Matthew_Donald_Macleod&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matthew Donald Macleod (page does not exist)">Matthew Donald Macleod</a> (1961, 1967).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Hopkinson" title="Neil Hopkinson">Neil Hopkinson</a> (ed.), <i>Lucian: A Selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin Texts</i> (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLightfoot2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Lightfoot" title="Jane Lightfoot">Lightfoot, Jane</a> (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iDUqSQAACAAJ"><i>On the Syrian Goddess</i></a>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-925138-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-925138-4"><bdi>978-0-19-925138-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=On+the+Syrian+Goddess&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-19-925138-4&rft.aulast=Lightfoot&rft.aufirst=Jane&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DiDUqSQAACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucian" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/lj/: 'l' in 'lute'">lj</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span>-<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς</span>, <i><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">Loukianòs ho Samosateús</i></span></i>; <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Lucianus Samosatensis</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tychiades is commonly identified as an authorial <a href="/wiki/Self-insertion" title="Self-insertion">self-insertion</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden2007a180_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden2007a180-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although Daniel Ogden notes that this can only be true to a limited extent.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden2007a181_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden2007a181-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Lucian&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMatthews2021" class="citation book cs1">Matthews, John (23 February 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=d-USEAAAQBAJ&q=Lucian%27s+life+comes+from+his+own+writings&pg=PA107"><i>Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology</i></a>. John Wiley & Sons. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4443-3458-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4443-3458-6"><bdi>978-1-4443-3458-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Empire+of+the+Romans%3A+From+Julius+Caesar+to+Justinian%3A+Six+Hundred+Years+of+Peace+and+War%2C+Volume+II%3A+Select+Anthology&rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons&rft.date=2021-02-23&rft.isbn=978-1-4443-3458-6&rft.aulast=Matthews&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dd-USEAAAQBAJ%26q%3DLucian%2527s%2Blife%2Bcomes%2Bfrom%2Bhis%2Bown%2Bwritings%26pg%3DPA107&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALucian" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017328-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017328_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRichter2017">Richter 2017</a>, p. 328.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–3-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%933_4-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, pp. xiii–3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarsh19981_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarsh1998">Marsh 1998</a>, p. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017329-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017329_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRichter2017">Richter 2017</a>, p. 329.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986671-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986671_7-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRussell1986">Russell 1986</a>, p. 671.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii_8-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, p. xiii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVout200716-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout200716_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout200716_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVout2007">Vout 2007</a>, p. 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERussell1986670-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERussell1986670_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRussell1986">Russell 1986</a>, p. 670.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEVout2007229-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVout2007229_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFVout2007">Vout 2007</a>, p. 229.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKaldellis200731_12-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKaldellis2007">Kaldellis 2007</a>, p. 31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPomeroyBursteinDonlanRoberts2018532_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Pomeroy">Pomeroy et al. 2018</a>, p. 532.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xi–xii-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xi%E2%80%93xii_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, pp. xi–xii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii_15-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, p. xii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon199694–115-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon199694%E2%80%93115_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon199694%E2%80%93115_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon199694%E2%80%93115_16-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGordon1996">Gordon 1996</a>, pp. 94–115.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii–xiii-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii%E2%80%93xiii_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xii%E2%80%93xiii_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, pp. xii–xiii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881_18-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSchlapbach2018">Schlapbach 2018</a>, p. 81.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881–82-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchlapbach201881%E2%80%9382_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSchlapbach2018">Schlapbach 2018</a>, pp. 81–82.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017334-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017334_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017334_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017334_20-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRichter2017">Richter 2017</a>, p. 334.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESwain199646-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwain199646_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwain199646_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSwain1996">Swain 1996</a>, p. 46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017331-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRichter2017">Richter 2017</a>, p. 331.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017331–332-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017331%E2%80%93332_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRichter2017">Richter 2017</a>, pp. 331–332.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii,_349-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii,_349_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, pp. xiii, 349.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962349-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962349_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, p. 349.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii–xiv-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiii%E2%80%93xiv_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, pp. xiii–xiv.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECasson1962xiv_27-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCasson1962">Casson 1962</a>, p. xiv.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Eerdmans-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Eerdmans_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Eerdmans_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">James D. G. Dunn, John William Rogerson, <i>Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible</i>, p. 1105, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-3711-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-3711-5">0-8028-3711-5</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGordon1996107_29-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGordon1996">Gordon 1996</a>, p. 107.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196799-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-18"><sup><i><b>s</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-19"><sup><i><b>t</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196799_30-20"><sup><i><b>u</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTurner1967">Turner 1967</a>, p. 99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798_31-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTurner1967">Turner 1967</a>, p. 98.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETurner196798–99-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798%E2%80%9399_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurner196798%E2%80%9399_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTurner1967">Turner 1967</a>, pp. 98–99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017338–341-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017338%E2%80%93341_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRichter2017">Richter 2017</a>, pp. 338–341.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993331-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1993331_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFerguson1993">Ferguson 1993</a>, p. 331.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter2017339-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter2017339_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRichter2017">Richter 2017</a>, p. 339.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Edwyn_Bevan" title="Edwyn Bevan">Edwyn Bevan</a>, <i>Stoics And Sceptics</i> 1913 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1162748400" title="Special:BookSources/1162748400">1162748400</a> p. 110 <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.org/details/stoicsandsceptic033554mbp/page/n6/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/stoicsandsceptic033554mbp/page/n6/mode/2up</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeorgiadouLarmour199858_37-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Parthenon_from_west.jpg/21px-Parthenon_from_west.jpg" decoding="async" width="21" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 21px;height: 16px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Parthenon_from_west.jpg/21px-Parthenon_from_west.jpg" data-alt="" data-width="21" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Parthenon_from_west.jpg/32px-Parthenon_from_west.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Parthenon_from_west.jpg/42px-Parthenon_from_west.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Ancient_Greece" title="Portal:Ancient Greece">Ancient Greece</a></li><li class="portal-bar-item"><span class="nowrap"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><noscript><img alt="" 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%8A" title="لوقيان السميساطي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="لوقيان السميساطي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_de_Samosata" title="Luciano de Samosata – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Luciano de Samosata" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian" title="Lukian – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Lukian" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AB%DB%8C%D9%86" title="لوثین – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="لوثین" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8" title="লুসিয়ান – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="লুসিয়ান" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%B7_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B" title="Лукіян з Самасаты – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Лукіян з Самасаты" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%B7_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B" title="Люкіян з Самасаты – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Люкіян з Самасаты" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0" title="Лукиан от Самосата – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Лукиан от Самосата" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian_Samosata" title="Lukian Samosata – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Lukian Samosata" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lluci%C3%A0" title="Llucià – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Llucià" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAkianos" title="Lúkianos – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Lúkianos" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian" title="Lukian – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Lukian" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian_von_Samosata" title="Lukian von Samosata – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Lukian von Samosata" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos" title="Lukianos – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Lukianos" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82" title="Λουκιανός – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Λουκιανός" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_de_Sam%C3%B3sata" title="Luciano de Samósata – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Luciano de Samósata" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano" title="Luciano – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Luciano" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luziano_Samosatakoa" title="Luziano Samosatakoa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Luziano Samosatakoa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B4_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C" title="لوسیان شمش شادی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="لوسیان شمش شادی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_de_Samosate" title="Lucien de Samosate – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Lucien de Samosate" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_de_Samosata" title="Luciano de Samosata – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Luciano de Samosata" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A3%A8%ED%82%A4%EC%95%84%EB%85%B8%EC%8A%A4" title="루키아노스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="루키아노스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D5%BD" title="Լուկիանոս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Լուկիանոս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8" title="लुसियन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="लुसियन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukijan" title="Lukijan – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Lukijan" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos" title="Lukianos – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Lukianos" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos" title="Lukianos – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Lukianos" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano" title="Luciano – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Luciano" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAk%C3%ADanos" title="Lúkíanos – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Lúkíanos" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_di_Samosata" title="Luciano di Samosata – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Luciano di Samosata" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%98%D7%94" title="לוקיאנוס מסאמוסאטה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="לוקיאנוס מסאמוסאטה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Лукиан – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Лукиан" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_wa_Samosata" title="Luciano wa Samosata – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Luciano wa Samosata" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Лукиан – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Лукиан" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucianus_Samosatensis" title="Lucianus Samosatensis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Lucianus Samosatensis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosatas_Luki%C4%81ns" title="Samosatas Lukiāns – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Samosatas Lukiāns" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianas" title="Lukianas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Lukianas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" 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data-title="ルキアノス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian" title="Lukian – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Lukian" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian" title="Lukian – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Lukian" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian" title="Lukian – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Lukian" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukian_z_Samosat" title="Lukian z Samosat – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Lukian z Samosat" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_de_Sam%C3%B3sata" title="Luciano de Samósata – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Luciano de Samósata" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_din_Samosata" title="Lucian din Samosata – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Lucian din Samosata" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Лукиан – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Лукиан" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukiani" title="Lukiani – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Lukiani" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Lucian" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos_zo_Samosaty" title="Lukianos zo Samosaty – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Lukianos zo Samosaty" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukijan" title="Lukijan – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Lukijan" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Лукијан – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Лукијан" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukijan" title="Lukijan – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Lukijan" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos" title="Lukianos – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Lukianos" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos" title="Lukianos – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Lukianos" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B9%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%99" title="ลูเชียน – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ลูเชียน" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsatl%C4%B1_Lukianos" title="Samsatlı Lukianos – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Samsatlı Lukianos" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Лукіан – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Лукіан" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos_c%E1%BB%A7a_Samosata" title="Lukianos của Samosata – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Lukianos của Samosata" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fiu-vro mw-list-item"><a href="https://fiu-vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukianos_Samosatast" title="Lukianos Samosatast – Võro" lang="vro" hreflang="vro" data-title="Lukianos Samosatast" data-language-autonym="Võro" data-language-local-name="Võro" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Võro</span></a></li><li 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