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Lucian
of Samosata (Ancient
Greek: Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς,
Latin:
Lucianus Samosatensis; AD 125 –
after AD 180) was a rhetorician[1]
and satirist who
wrote in the Greek
language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Although
he wrote solely in Attic
Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian.
Lucian was also one of the
earliest novelists in Western
civilization. In A
True Story, a fictional narrative work written in prose, he
parodied some fantastic tales told by Homer
in the Odyssey
and some feeble fantasies that were popular in his time. He
anticipated "modern" fictional themes like voyages to the
moon and Venus, extraterrestrial
life and wars between planets, nearly two millennia before Jules
Verne and H.
G. Wells. His novel is widely regarded as an early, if not the
earliest science
fiction work.
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