It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

* Lucian, Syrian rhetorician and satirist, writing in the Greek language

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Lucian in the 2nd century AD in his book True History examines the idea of a crew of men whose ship travels to the Moon during a storm.

Lucian admired the works of Epicurus, for he breaks off a witty satire against Alexander of Abonoteichus, who burned a book of Epicurus, to exclaim:

The book consisted of four dialogues in imitation of Lucian.

A comparison and contrast of " longevity in antiquity " ( such as the Sumerian King List, the genealogies of Genesis, and the Persian Shahnameh ) with " longevity in historical times " ( common-era cases through twentieth-century news reports ) is elaborated in detail in Lucian Boia's 2004 book Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity from Antiquity to the Present and other sources.

The latter book was published after his death by his son, Lucian III, in 1989.

In art critic Martin Gayford's 2010 book, Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, Gayford chronicled the forty days he spent with Lucian Freud while sitting for his portrait.

The philosopher Lucian attacked the Cynics in his book " The Philosophies for Sale " in which he mocked the Cynics by stating " First ... stripping you of your luxury ... I will put a cloak on you ... Next I will compel you to undergo pains and hardships, sleeping on the ground, drinking nothing but water ... Leading this life you will say that your are happier than the Great King ... Frequent the most crowded market place ... and in desire to be solitary and uncommunicative ..."

When another character expresses doubt that Merv can supervise every book ever written or thought of, Lucian states that Merv has his cellphone number.

The book ends rather abruptly with Lucian saying that their adventure there will be the subject of following books.

On Wednesday, however, The Village Voice ran reports of the riots, written by Howard Smith and Lucian Truscott, that included unflattering descriptions of the events and its participants: " forces of faggotry ," " limp wrists " and " Sunday fag follies ".

On July 1, 2005, the Lucian Blaga Lyceum, a high school with Romanian as its language of instruction, was registered as a Transnistrian non-governmental establishment.

On the evidence of Lucian, the Parthians still held the southern, Roman bank of the Euphrates ( in Syria ) as late as 163 ( he refers to a battle at Sura, which is on the southern side of the river ).

On February 16 at a high level conference hosted by Alexander and attended by Clark and Wilson, commander AFHQ it was decided to appoint two deputies under Lucas, Lucian Truscott and the British Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh.

On October 15, 2010 Brinkley fought against the IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute in Montreal, Canada.

On March 1, 1967 Saint Lucia became an Associated State of the United Kingdom, a move closer to independence that placed the Saint Lucian government fully in charge of the island's internal affairs.

The satirist Lucian, in his True History, describes him as a Babylonian called Tigranes, who assumed the name Homer when taken " hostage " ( homeros ) by the Greeks.

Grecophone satirist Lucian describes the process in a detailed manner:

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

According to E. R Dodds, " There he is not so much the typical petty criminal as the typical buffoon ; and so Lucian describes him.

It describes Lucian and a Celtic man looking at a painting of Ogmios.

Lucian wrote that " The people who suffered the greatest torment were those who had told lies when they were alive and written mendacious histories ; among them were Ctesias of Cnidus, Herodotus, and many others.

In Lucian's satiric dialogue Assembly of the Gods ( ca 165 CE ) it is Momus who is the secretary when the gods stage a city meeting as if at Athens, to decide what to do about newly-arrived outsiders and metics, the target of the satire being the recent development of complete enfranchisement of unworthy outsiders ( Lucian himself being of Syrian origin ).

For instance, the publication missed James Joyce entirely and only commented negatively on Lucian Freud from 1945 until 1978, when a portrait of his appeared on the cover.

Selene discovers that when Lucian was supposedly killed, Kraven was the only witness.

Since 1994, the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church has been led by Cardinal Lucian Mureșan, Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, who on December 16, 2005 became its first Major Archbishop when it was raised to the rank of a Major Archiepiscopal Church by Benedict XVI, and was created a cardinal on February 18, 2012.

Admired and popularly imitated writers such as Lucian also adopted Atticism, so that the style survived until the Renaissance, when it was taken up by non-Greek students of Byzantine expatriates.

Lucian popular music can be traced back to the 1940s, when calypso became a part of the island's musical culture.

The generation of the ' 80s continued and merged with the generation of the end of the decade, when new stars appeared on the Brașov sky: Marin Barbu, Alexandru Csaba Andrași, Marian Mărgărit, Eugen Moldovan, Petre Lucian, Andrei Șanta and Ștefan Bălan.

The 1st century writer of satires Lucian in his True History claims to have visited the moon when his ship was sent up by a fountain, which was peopled and at war with the people of the Sun over colonisation of the Morning Star.

After marrying Lucian Ware when she was nineteen, she was a mother of four by 1892.

It was long believed that Lucian of Samosata had Diogenes ' work principally in mind when he wrote his celebrated parody, the Verae Historiae, though J. R. Morgan has more recently questioned this accepted notion on extensive comparative study of the two works.

In the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, " Alexander the false prophet ", trained by " one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous incantations, charms for your love-affairs, visitations for your enemies, disclosures of buried treasure, and successions to estates ",< ref >

Like Arius, he was a pupil of Lucian of Antioch, and it is probable that he held the same views as Arius from the very beginning ; he was also one of Arius ' most fervent supporters who encouraged Arius.

According to Lucian, Herodotus took his finished work straight from Asia Minor to the Olympic Games and read the entire Histories to the assembled spectators in one sitting, receiving rapturous applause at the end of it.

It has been considered as a roman à clef — Jupiter has been identified in some sources as Pope Eugenius IV and Pope Nicholas V. Alberti borrowed many of its characters from Lucian, one of his favorite Greek writers.

Echion (), also known as Aetion, was a celebrated Greek painter spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander and Roxana.

In one victory ode, celebrating Glaucus of Carystus, a famous boxer, Simonides declares that not even Heracles or Polydeuces could have stood against him — a statement whose impiety seemed notable even to Lucian many generations later.

It is called « Lycian » not after Lycia itself, but after its identification with a lost work described by Lucian as being on show in the Lykeion, one of the gymnasia of Athens.

Lucian, a century later, credits one " Philippides.

Lucian was trained as a rhetorician, a vocation where one pleads in court, composing pleas for others, and teaching the art of pleading.

Lucian was also one of the earliest novelists in Western civilization.

Among sedevacantist claimants to the papacy, at least one, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, was crowned using a tiara, thus showing the power of its symbolism, while another, Lucian Pulvermacher, uses the tiara on his coat of arms.

Lucian Blaga, one of the country's most important artistic personalities, developed through his writings a complex philosophic system, still not perfectly understood even today.

Accordingly, the Romanians " appear at one and the same time as indigenous ( in Roman Dacia ), immigrants ( from south of the Danube ), and conquerors ( in the principalities )" ( Lucian Boia ).

In England: A Nation, ( London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1904 ), edited by Lucian Oldershaw, and in a chapter entitled " The Patriotic Idea " written by G. K. Chesterton, the beauty of Box Hill violated by an invading army is used to express a healthy patriot's love for his nation is opposed to the jingoistic nationalism of tabloid newspapers: " But just as a man who has been in love will find it difficult to write a whole frantic epic about a flirtation, so all that kind of rhetoric about the Union Jack and the Anglo-Saxon blood, which has made amusing the journalism of this country for the last six years, will be merely impossible to the man who has for one moment called up before himself what would be the real sensation of hearing that a foreign army was encamped on Box Hill.

* Lucian: Another one of Palse's feudal lords.

1993-The Whitechapel Gallery showcases Lucian Freud, one of Britain ’ s greatest living figurative painters

The story quoted the mother as saying: " We named him Lucian Yahoo, one name after my father and the other from the computer.

It has featured in many portraits of the Queen, including one painted by Lucian Freud in 2001, and one by Raphael Maklouf that appears on Commonwealth coinage and on British Machin series stamps.

The coin was rationalized as his payment ; the satirist Lucian remarks that in order to avoid death, one should simply not pay the fee.

:" Not that one ," he said, " that's one of Myron's works, that Diskobolos you speak of ..." ( Lucian of Samosata, Philopseudes c. 18 )

At the end of the 2000s and start of the 2010s the division was one of the most active in boxing with the likes of Lucian Bute, Andre Ward, Andre Dirrell, Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, Anthony Mundine, Arthur Abraham, Robert Stieglitz, Sakio Bika, Allan Green, Jesse Brinkley, Librado Andrade, Edison Miranda and Jermain Taylor.

Fort Delimara was a one of a ring of forts and batteries that protected Marsaxlokk harbour, along with Fort Tas-Silg at the shoreward end of Delimara point, Fort St Lucian on Kbira point in the middle of Marsaxlokk bay, Fort Benghisa on Benghisa Point, and the Pinto and Ferreti batteries on the shores of Marsaxlokk Bay.