In the second century AD the satirist Lucian wrote that Sostratus inscribed his name under plaster bearing the name of Ptolemy.

Lucian of Samosata in Syria ( 2nd century AD ) in De Dea Syria ( Concerning the Syrian Goddess ) wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited:

Long after the Romans conquered the Gauls, the Roman satirist Lucian wrote a satirical story about Celtic beliefs.

Lucian of Samosata (, ; – after AD 180 ) was a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language.

Lucian also wrote a satire called The Passing of Peregrinus, in which the lead character, Peregrinus Proteus, takes advantage of the generosity and gullibility of Christians.

Lucian wrote Attic dialect with a facility almost equal to Plato.

In a letter to Patriarch Alexander of Constantinople Arius ' bishop, Alexander of Alexandria, wrote that Arius derived his theology from Lucian.

Hardy wrote quickly, often adapting plays from French, foreign and classical sources ( Ovid, Lucian, Plutarch, Xenophon, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge de Montemayor, Boccaccio, François de Rosset ).

Lucian of Samosata ( Born 115 AD ) a well-known Greek satirist and traveling lecturer wrote mockingly of the followers of Jesus for their ignorance and credulity.

Classical authors like Lucian and Apuleius wrote satires in which pretentious people turned into lowly animals, like a jackass.

It was named by Walter Scott Houston in honor of Father Lucian J. Kemble ( 1922 – 1999 ), a Franciscan Friar and amateur astronomer who wrote a letter to Houston about the asterism, describing it as " a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the northwest down to the open cluster NGC 1502 " that he had discovered while sweeping the sky with a pair of 7x35 binoculars.

Imitating the literature of the Alexandrian period, they wrote romances, panegyrics, epigrams, satires, and didactic and hortatory poetry, following the models of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, Asclepiades and Posidippus, Lucian and Longus.

During the war, he wrote many biographies, including those of Lucian Truscott, Bill Mauldin, J. Elmer Spyglass, Creighton Abrams, and Canadian manufacturer Ludger Dionne.

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.

For example, the battle at Xiang River “ which the official history of the Long March identifies as the longest and most heroic battle of the entire campaign, was in fact a major defeat for the Communists, with casualties and desertions reducing the First Army from 86, 000 to 30, 000 people .”< ref > Pye, Lucian.

According to Lucian Constantin at Softpedia, " CO. TV is a free domain provider that is obviously being abused by the people behind this campaign.

Since 1973, the non-government organization Folk Research Centre which seeks to " promote research into St. Lucian culture " and to " explore and clarify the role of culture in the development of our people ".

Lucian Boia took a sceptical position, arguing the ancient writers distinguished among the two people, treating them as two distinct groups of the Thracian ethnos.

According to Lucian Boia, " the simplicity, wisdom, and patriotism of a people who seem to be outside history are set in opposition to the conquering greed of the great empires.

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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.

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According to Lucian, Peregrinus strangled his father to death ; became a Christian so that he could gain wealth ; was imprisoned so that he could gain notoriety ; gave his inheritance away so that he might gain favour among the people of his home town ; studied under Agathobulus so that he could become more obscene ; attacked the Romans to become famous ; and killed himself to become infamous.

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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.

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.

Courage, dignity, altruism and loyalty were morally redemptive ; Lucian idealised this principle in his story of Sisinnes, who voluntarily fought as a gladiator, earned 10, 000 drachmas and used it to buy freedom for his friend, Toxaris.

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.

Lucian Pulvermacher, who left the Roman Catholic Church in 1976 and in October 1998 was elected Pope of the conclavist " True Catholic Church " with the name of " Pius XIII ".

Lucian of Samosata wittily imagined the dialogue between Poseidon and the very dolphin who bore Arion.

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.

Lucian of Samosata refers to Adrasteia / Nemesis in his Dialogue of the sea-gods, 9, where Poseidon remarks to a Nereid that Adrasteia is a great deal stronger than Nephele, who was unable to prevent the fall of her daughter Helle from the ram of the Golden Fleece.

As snakes were known to congregate in such pits, the scholiast on Lucian explains, those who didn't go to retrieve the remains shouted to scare away any that might be lurking down there.

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 ).

His mystical work The Hill of Dreams ( 1907 ; though written ten years earlier ) has scenes set in Notting Hill ; it is here that the protagonist Lucian Taylor encounters the beautiful bronze-haired prostitute who will later connive at his death.

Lucian mentions him among those who held lectures at Olympia.

This worship of Atargatis was immortalized in De Dea Syria which has traditionally been attributed to Lucian of Samosata, a native of Commagene, who gave a full description of the religious cult of the shrine and the tank of sacred fish of Atargatis, of which Aelian also relates marvels.

The vast variation in how Chinese nationalism has been expressed has been noted by commentators Lucian Pye who argues that this reveals a lack of content in the Chinese identity.

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:

Meanwhile, Lucian Truscott, who had been promoted from the command of U. S. 3rd Infantry Division to replace Lucas as commander of VI Corps on February 22, worked with his staff on the plans for a decisive attack as part of a general offensive which Alexander was planning for May and which would include a major offensive on the Gustav Line, Operation Diadem.

Lucian King Truscott, Jr. ( January 9, 1895 – September 12, 1965 ) was a U. S. Army General, who successively commanded the 3rd Infantry Division, VI Corps, U. S. Fifteenth Army and U. S. Fifth Army during World War II.

Lucillius, who flourished under Nero, and Lucian, display a talent for shrewd, caustic epigram.

One of the dialogues attributed to Lucian, his avowed imitator, who frequently mentions him, is called Menippus, but since the sub-title (" The Oracle of the Dead ") resembles that of a work ascribed to Menippus by Diogenes Laërtius, it has been suggested that it is imitated from his Necromancy.

Arius objected to Origen's doctrine, complaining about it in his letter to the Nicomedian Eusebius, who had also studied under Lucian.

A founding president of the Association of Romanian Public Libraries, Iorga was also tightening his links with young Transylvanian intellectuals: he took part in reorganizing the Cluj Franz Joseph University into a Romanian-speaking institution, meeting scholars Vasile Pârvan and Vasile Bogrea ( who welcomed him as " our protective genius "), and published a praise of the young traditionalist poet Lucian Blaga.