The focus of the Council of Nicaea was the divinity of Christ ( see Paul of Samosata and the Synods of Antioch ).

The motif was also adopted by Lucian of Samosata in his " Sale of Creeds ," in which the duo is sold together as a complementary product in the satirical auction of philosophers.

In the territory of Phoenician Sidon, Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) was informed that the temple of Astarte, whom Lucian equated with the moon goddess, was sacred to Europa:

In the 2nd century the satirist Lucian of Samosata was a sharp critic of Neo-Pythagoreanism.

Adonis was worshipped in unspoken mystery religions: not until Imperial Roman times ( in Lucian of Samosata, De Dea Syria, ch.

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.

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.

They had accepted the teaching of Paul of Samosata, though at a later period the name of Paul was believed to be that of the Apostle ; and they were not quite free from the Dualistic principle of the Gnostics, at a later period too much identified with the teaching of Mani, by Photius, Petrus Siculus, and other authors.

Paul of Samosata ( lived from 200 to 275 AD ) was Bishop of Antioch from 260 to 268.

Paul was born at Samosata into a family of humble origin.

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

In his works, Lucian refers to himself as a " Syrian ", and " barbarian ", perhaps indicating " he was from the Semitic and not the imported Greek population " of Samosata.

Iotapa was most probably born, raised and educated in Samosata, the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.

She was most probably born, raised and educated in Samosata, the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.

She was most probably born, raised and educated in Samosata, the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene.

Az-Zahir still held Aleppo and al-Afdal was given Samosata in Anatolia.

The land in the east was eventually recovered by Nikephoros Phokas, who conquered Hadath, in northern Syria, in 958, and by the Armenian general John Tzimiskes, who one year later captured Samosata, in northern Mesopotamia.

Their first joint project was a translation of the works of Lucian of Samosata.

This question of the exact relationship between the Father and the Son ( a part of the theological science of Christology ) had been raised some fifty years before Arius, when Paul of Samosata was deposed in 269 for agreeing with those who used the word homoousios ( Greek for same substance ) to express the relation between the Father and the Son.

In 815 the monastery of Qenneshrin was badly damaged by fire and its monks dispersed, and Dionysius moved northwards to the monastery of Mar Yaʿqob of Kaishum in the district of Samosata.

Samosata ( Armenian: Շամուշատ,, šmīšaṭ ) was an ancient city on the right ( west ) bank of the Euphrates whose ruins existed at the modern city of Samsat, Adıyaman Province, Turkey until the site was flooded by the newly-constructed Atatürk Dam.

A civil metropolis from the days of Emperor Hadrian, Samosata was the home of the Legio VI Ferrata and later Legio XVI Flavia Firma, and the terminus of several military roads.

Samosata was also the birthplace of Paul of Samosata, the third leader of the Elkasites, an order of Essene Gnostics, who lived in the mid-3rd century.

Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) gives the same story but names the runner Philippides ( not Pheidippides ).

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.

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.

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

Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides ( not Pheidippides ).

According to Lucian of Samosata in the later 2nd century, " they have laid hands on your person at Olympia, my lord High-Thunderer, and you had not the energy to wake the dogs or call in the neighbours ; surely they might have come to the rescue and caught the fellows before they had finished packing up the statue.

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

* Phalaris I & Phalaris II by Lucian at Lucian of Samosata Project

He mocked Hephaestus, Lucian of Samosata recalled, for having made mankind without doors in their breast, through which their thoughts could be seen.

Pitys is mentioned in Longus ' Daphnis and Chloe ( ii. 7 and 39 ) and by Lucian of Samosata ( Dialogues of the Dead, 22. 4 ).

* Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues of the Gods ( On-line text in English )

About a hundred years after Paul's time, Lucian – a native of Samosata, in the former kingdom of Commagene, which had been absorbed by the Roman Empire and made part of the province of Syria – used the term " barbarian " to describe himself.

More recent humaniform examples include the brooms from the legend of the sorcerer's apprentice derived from a tale by Lucian of Samosata in the 1st century AD, the Jewish legend of the golem created like Adam from clay, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

* Lucian of Samosata on Jesus

Richter, " Lives and Afterlives of Lucian of Samosata ," Arion ( 2005 ) 13. 1: 75-100.

* Saint Eusebius of Samosata ( died c. 380 ), bishop of Samosata

Earlier bishops included Peperius, who attended the Council of Nicaea ( 325 ); Saint Eusebius of Samosata, a great opponent of the Arians, killed by an Arian woman ( c. 380 ), honoured on 22 June ; Andrew, a vigorous opponent of Cyril of Alexandria and of the Council of Ephesus.

190-200 AD ), Paul of Samosata ( 200-275 AD ), and Lucian of Antioch ( c. 240-312 AD )-held to a Christological doctrine known as Adoptionism or Dynamic Monarchianism, which was very similar to Cerinthian Christology.

* Lucian of Samosata ( c. 125 – after c. 180 )

* Eusebius of Samosata ( died c. 380 ), bishop of Samosata

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