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	Lucian of Samosata (C. 115–C. 200) \| Encyclopedia of Philosophy
		Lucian of Samosata(C. Lucian of Samosata, the philosophical satirist and satirist of philosophy, was born at Samosata (Samsat) on the Euphrates and was educated there.
		Lucian's philosophical position is not easy to define because he expresses contradictory attitudes, and his persistent irony and his obvious wish to entertain make it hard to know how seriously to take his statements.
		In The Fisher, Lucian claimed to be a champion of philosophy, which he described elsewhere as a civilizing and morally improving study; however, he constantly criticized pseudo philosophers for their greed, bad temper, sexual immorality, and the general inconsistency between their preaching and their practice.
	www.bookrags.com /research/lucian-of-samosata-c-115c-200-eoph (914 words)

	Lucian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Samosata (now inundated in a reservoir of eastern Turkey), in the former kingdom of Commagene, which had been absorbed by the Roman Empire and made part of the province of Syria, thus he referred to himself as a "Syrian"
		Lucian almost certainly did not write all the more than eighty works attributed to him— declamations, essays both laudatory and sarcastic, and comic dialogues and symposia with a satirical cast, studded with quotations in alarming contexts and allusions set in an unusual light, designed to be surprising and provocative.
		Lucian was trained as a rhetorician, a vocation where one pleads in court, composing pleas for others, and teaching the art of pleading, but Lucian's practice was to travel about, giving amusing discourses and witty lectures improvised on the spot, somewhat as a rhapsode had done in declaiming poetry at an earlier period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata (576 words)

	Lucian of Samosata (A.D. c.120-180)
		All this was grist to Lucian's satirical mill and in his two extraterrestrial stories – precursors of science fiction – he parodies the kind of feeble fantasy that had become popular.
		Lucian may be off here in Cloudcuckooland (or almost – the trip to the city of Nephelo-coccygia (the cloud cuckoo) actually comes later in the book) but it is interesting that, in his space odyssey, he portrays the Moon and planets as being genuine worlds with unique life-forms of their own.
		In fact, for many centuries, Lucian's adventure was highly regarded, not as pure fantasy but as speculative fiction, much as we might treat an SF novel by a respected scientist-author today.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/L/Lucian.html (591 words)

	Lucian of Samosata, trans. A. M. Harmon (Loeb Edition), page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is Lucian's reply to the storm of angry protest which he had evoked from the schoolmen with his Philosophies fen-Sale (II.
		Eventually conceded a formal trial before Philosophy, he is acquitted on the plea that hia ridicule had not been aimed at the ancient worthies but at their unworthy successors of his own time.
		Lucian's plea is specious, for in Philosophies for Kale he had certainly shown scant regard for those whom he now professes to hold in such high esteem.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /lucian-3/0006.html (330 words)

	The Syrian Goddess Index
		Lucian recounts his personal observations of the worship of the Goddess Atargatis (a form of Isthar or Astarte) at the temple of Hierapolis, in what is today Turkey.
		Lucian writes in the style of Herodotus, and, remarkably, in Herodotus' dialect of Greek, which at that time was over five hundred years old.
		There is one clue: in a personal note at the end, Lucian says that a lock of his youthful hair was dedicated to the Goddess at this temple.
	sacred-texts.com /cla/luc/tsg (470 words)

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		Though Lucian might be useful on occasion ('When Tertullian or Lactantius employ their labours in exposing the falsehood and extravagance of Paganism, they are obliged to transcribe the eloquence of Cicero or the wit of Lucian' [Footnote: Gibbon, _Decline and Fall_, cap.
		Lucian, it is certain, will supply no one with a religion or a philosophy; but it may be doubted whether any writer will supply more fully both example and precept in favour of doing one's thinking for oneself; and it may be doubted also whether any other intellectual lesson is more necessary.
		Lucian, on the contrary, so rings the changes by permutations and combinations of them that each dialogue is approached with a delightful uncertainty of what form it may take.
	www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/gutenberg/etext04/lcns110.txt (17710 words)

	Rex St Lucian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was born in Samosata, Syria and diedin Athens, and he was also known as Lucianos, Lucianus and Lucinus.
		Lucian wrote a satire called The Passing of Peregrinus, in which the lead character, Peregrinus, takes advantage of thegenerosity and gullibility of Christians.
		Lucian also wrote Philopseudes (Greek for "Lovers of lies"), a framestory which includes the original version of " The Sorcerer's Apprentice ".
	www.witchware.com /File/15608-Rex.St.Lucian.Html (372 words)

	Lucian's De Dea Syria-Historical Introduction
		While most commonly attributed to Lucian, some scholars dispute the authorship of this book because it is written in a somewhat archaic Ionic Greek dialect rather than in the Attic Greek dialect in which Lucian typically wrote.
		Those who believe Lucian is the author argue that he wrote it intentionally to sound a bit like the ancient Greek Herodotos who wrote a famous travelogue hundreds of years before, and still popular in Lucian's day.
		Lucian is famous for his satires and parodies, so it is quite possible he is, indeed, the author.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Lofts/2938/deasyria-intro.html (333 words)

	Lucian's De Dea Syria-Intro and Part One
		And when the breast-beating and weeping is at end, first they make offerings to Adon as if to a dead person; and then, on the next day, they proclaim that he is alive and fetch him forth into the air, and shave their heads as the Egyptians do when Apis dies.
		Lucian abridges his account of the rites because they were familiar.
		Lucian's amusing reticence is by way of parody on Herodotus, and derives its point from the fact that his reader, knowing the reputation of the place, is all agog to hear about it.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Lofts/2938/deasyria1.html (2096 words)

	Lucian of Samosata : Introduction to his works and manuscripts
		LUCIAN was born at Samosata in Commagene and calls himself a Syrian; he may or may not have been of Semitic stock.
		Rightly to understand and appreciate Lucian, one must recognise that he was not a philosopher nor even a moralist, but a rhetorician, that his mission in life was not to reform society nor to chastise it, but simply to amuse it.
		Beside satiric dialogues, which form the bulk of his work, and early rhetorical writings, we have from the pen of Lucian two romances, A True Story and Lucius, or the Ass (if indeed the latter is his), some introductions to readings and a number of miscellaneous treatises.
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/lucian/lucian_intro.htm (930 words)

	Lucian of Samosata and Church Fathers
		Lucian of Samosata is used to prove that the word still included instruments during his times.
		Lucian noted that in observing the funeral festivities where the food and music was offered to the dead but enjoyed by the living.
		Lucian notes that while they heaped the food and entertainment on themselves, only the crumbs which fell to the dead was burned.
	www.piney.com /FathersLucian.html (6083 words)

	Lucian of Samosata (c.120-c.190) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Author: Deferrari, Roy Joseph, 1890- Title: Lucian's atticism; the morphology of the verb, by Roy J. Deferrari.
		Heading: Lucian, of Samosata References: Leukiyean al-Sumayseartei Leuqyeaneus al-Sameiseartei nna Lucianus Samosatensis Loukianos, ho Samosateus Lucien, de Samosate Luciano, di Samosata Lukian, ze Samosaty Lbukibanos, ze Samosaty Loekianos, van Samosata Samosata, Lucian of Lukian, z Samosat Luciano, de Samosata Lukian, von Samosata Luciano, Samossateno Notes: Korus, K. Poetyka Lukiana z Samosat, 1982: -- t.p.
		Luciani Samosatentis dialogorum selectorum libro duo Lucian, of Samosata.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlclucian1.htm (1325 words)

	Lucian of Samosata : THE PASSING OF PEREGRINUS
		The earlier life of Peregrinus is portrayed incidentally in a speech attributed by Lucian to someone whose name he did not know, but clearly made by Lucian himself.
		Lucian believes himself to be exposing a sham, whose zeal was not at all for truth but only for applause and renown.
		The manner of its employment by Lucian is sufficient evidence that it did not origmate with Lucian or after the death of Peregrinus.
	www.brainfly.net /html/books/brn0275.htm (5591 words)

	Lucian of Samosata, trans. A. M. Harmon (Loeb Edition), page 235 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		No other pursuit could have served his turn better than that of the parasite, who made a business of sponging, who, along with the cook, had been a standing butt of the New Comedy, and now had become the rival of the philosopher and the rhetorician for the favour of rich patrons.
		The author of this clever comparison had the same standpoint as Lucian with reference to philosophy and rhetoric; he knows Lucian's writings ; and the name of Tychiades is one of Lucian's masks.
		He is either Lucian himself or a conscious imitator.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /lucian-3/0240.html (331 words)

	Lucian and Historiography
		The multifarious writings of Lucian of Samosata make up one of the more fascinating survivals from antiquity.
		Keen, witty, satirical, even cynical, Lucian is a unique source for many aspects of imperial society and culture, but his writings are more difficult to interpret than is usually allowed.
		Lucian and literature: the function of literature within the society [3/4]
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/Lucian/Syllabus.htm (134 words)

	Lucian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Lucian wrote an easy, masterly Attic prose, which he turned to satirical use.
		Lucian also wrote poems and rhetorical, critical, and biographical works.
		See C. Robinson, Lucian and His Influence in Europe (1979); C. Jones, Culture and Society in Lucian (1986).
	www.bartleby.com /65/lu/Lucian.html (192 words)

	The Works of Lucian of Samosata
		Lucian of Samosata was a writer known for his satire.
		He was born in what is now eastern Turkey, in Samosata, about 120 C.E. Samosata was located in the ancient Roman province of Syria (not to be confused with the modern country); the site was recently inundated by the Atatürk Dam.
		Lucian was trained as a rhetorician (somewhat like a trial attorney).
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/luc/index.htm (172 words)

	CLAS 3113: Lucian
		The objectives of this third-semester course in Ancient Greek are to develop fluency in reading, especially prose texts, and to make the transition from using textbooks to using unadapted texts, commentaries and dictionaries.
		Lucian, whom one could call the Mark Twain of Greek literature, is the author of about 80 surviving prose pieces of various form and length, ranging from short dialogues (usually farces on dominant discourses of the classical past) to biography and pseudo-autobiography to long prose fiction.
		On Lucian's popularity as an author in Europe from Erasmus through the eighteenth century, see Christopher Robinson, Lucian and his Influence in Europe (Duckworth 1979).
	spot.colorado.edu /~princes/3113index.htm (355 words)

	Lucian of Samosata
		In 160 A.D., many centuries before the time of Isaac Newton, the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote an account of how Ulysses' ship had been caught up in a whirlwind and carried on a 7-day flight to the moon.
		In his Icaromenippus the hero of the tale, Menippus, conceives the idea of paying a visit to Zeus and the story opens with a friend observing Menippus walking in the Street of the Tombs at Athens, talking to himself.
		In the titanic struggle which follows, the People of the Sun are at last victorious and the triumphant Phaethon builds a high wall which prevents the light from his domain from reaching the moon, thus causing a total eclipse....
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LucianSamosata.htm (701 words)

	ABZU Bibliography: Display Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Syrian Goddess: De Dea Syria, by Lucian of Samosata
		"Lucian of Samosata's De Dea Syria, (the Syrian Goddess) is one of the most 'notorious' classical writings.
		Not only does it acknowledge that at one time a paramount Goddess was worshipped in regions of the Ancient Near East, it goes into details of the practices of her devotees which later generations considered reprehensible.
	www.etana.org /abzu/abzu-displayarticle.pl?RC=18784 (132 words)

	Probe Ministries - Ancient Evidence for Jesus from Non-Christian Sources
		Lucian of Samosata was a second century Greek satirist.
		According to Lucian, he taught that all men are brothers from the moment of their conversion.
		Though Lucian doesn't say so explicitly, the Christian denial of other gods combined with their worship of Jesus implies the belief that Jesus was more than human.
	www.probe.org /theology-and-philosophy/theology---christ/ancient-evidence-for-jesus-from-non-christian-sources.html (2564 words)

	MavicaNET - Lucian of Samosata (c.120-180 A.D.)
		Lucian of Samosata made psallein include the lyre after the time of Paul, therefore Paul commanded instrumental music in worship.
		The complete translation of De Dea Syria by Lucian of Samosata, from the second century C.E., also known as The Syrian Goddess, and describing religious practices of the Pagan Syrians, Canaanites, and Phoenicians.
		An author engaged in a constant war of words with the falsehoods he perceived in his fragile world, he gained fame and ill-repute as "Lucian, who spared neither gods nor men".
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/nor/27674.html (229 words)

	Lucian of Samosata : The Passing of Peregrinus
		The earlier life of Peregrinus is portrayed incidentally in a speech attributed by Lucian to someone whose name he did not know, but clearly made by Lucian himself.
		Lucian believes himself to be exposing a sham, whose zeal was not at all for truth but only for applause and renown.
		The manner of its employment by Lucian is sufficient evidence that it did not origmate with Lucian or after the death of Peregrinus.
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/lucian/peregrinus.htm (6123 words)

	Roger Pearse's Pages
		Lucian of Samosata: Introduction - and MS tradition.
		Lucian of Samosata: The Passing of Peregrinus - English only.
		Lucian of Samosata: Alexander the False Prophet - English only
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse (1071 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Samosata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SAMOSATA [Samosata], ancient city of N Syria, on the Euphrates.
		The Arabs took it in the 7th cent.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Samosata" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/samosata.asp (206 words)

	Lucian Of Samosata Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		'Lucian's genial mockery, ' writes Lionel Casson, 'aimed at man's omnipresent failings, is never out of date: the jabs he gave the hypocrites, grandstanders, fakers, and boobs of the ancient world can just as appropriately be administered to their counterparts of the modern.'
		The works of Lucian of Samosata : complete with exceptions specified in the preface
		The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Lucian_Of_Samosata (591 words)

	Lucian
		We seem to have come round in a Ah!
		Lucian, what have you done to me? You have proved my priceless failed of the good thing he hoped for.
		All philosophers, so to like one who should weep, and reproach fortune because he is not able up at Cyprus, or sail on wings in one day from Greece to India.
	www.findword.org /lu/lucian.html (445 words)

	Alexander the Oracle-Monger: Lucian of Samosata
		The only account of his career occurs in an exposé by Lucian, whose investigations of Alexander's frauds led to a serious attempt on the writer's life.
		Lucian of Samosata, in Alexander the Oracle-Monger, shows how ancient and modern marketers of religious superstition used music and oracles to get rich.
		Ascertaining that I was the Lucian he knew of, he sent me a very polite and hospitable invitation.
	www.piney.com /Lucianalexander.html (8159 words)

	From "The True History," by Lucian of Samosata.
		From "The True History," by Lucian of Samosata.
		CTESIAS wrote an account of India, in which he records matters which he neither saw himself, nor heard from the mouth of any creature in the world.
		On the following day they got out upon the back of the whale, sacrificed to their deities, buried their dead in it, and then set sail with great jubilation.
	www.lit4lib.sky7.us /luciansa.html (6261 words)

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