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Lucian (c. 125-c. 190)

Greek writer. In his satirical dialogues, he pours scorn on religions and mocks human pretensions. His 65 genuine works also include rhetorical declamations, literary criticism, biography, and romance. Among the most interesting of his works are Dialogues of the Gods, Dialogues of the Dead, Zeus Confounded, and Zeus Tragedian. His True History inspired Rabelais's Voyage of Pantagruel, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and Cyrano de Bergerac's Journey to the Moon.

He was born at Samosata in Syria and for a time was an advocate at Antioch. He then set up as a sophistic rhetorician, and travelled in Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, and Gaul, before settling in Athens about 165. He later occupied an official post in Egypt, where he died.
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The contemplative atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, and some others; and yet they seem to be more than they are; for that all that impugn a received religion, or superstition, are by the adverse part branded with the name of atheists.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
Come, thou that hast inspired thy Aristophanes, thy Lucian, thy Cervantes, thy Rabelais, thy Moliere, thy Shakespear, thy Swift, thy Marivaux, fill my pages with humour; till mankind learn the good-nature to laugh only at the follies of others, and the humility to grieve at their own.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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