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He deliberately imitated Lucian in his Journey from This World and into the Next [150] and, in The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great (1743), he describes Lucian as "almost... like the true father of humour" [150] and lists him alongside Miguel de Cervantes and Jonathan Swift as a true master of satire. [150]
So successfully did he master the Greek language (he was raised speaking Aramaic) and culture that he began a career as a public speaker, traveling from city to city giving model speeches and public lectures to display his eloquence and probably also pleading in court.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lucian's attitude is that of a detached and scornful observer, who, however, in spite of his contempt for the silliness of his fellow men, sees the pathos of human affairs, and would fain make them regard conduct as the standard of life.
After being apprenticed to a sculptor, he became a student of rhetoric, at which he excelled. Earning his living as a traveling speaker, he delighted audiences with his satirical dialogs and ...
It reads, too, as if it were written in the first flush of success, before his fortieth year. Since it gives us a glimpse of his early history, and professes to tell us how he chose his career, it makes a good introduction to his works.
One of them is Ctesias, son of Ctesiochus, of Cnidos, who wrote a great deal about India and its characteristics that he had never seen himself nor heard from anyone else with a reputation for truthfulness. Iambulus also wrote much that was strange about the countries in the great sea: he made up a falsehood that is patent to everybody, but ...
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Nov 5, 2021 · Lucian of Samosata was born in Samosata in the Commagene on the Euphrates around 120 CE. He was Roman rhetoric and satirist, writing in Greek; sophist. He is considered the creator of social satire. His name in Polish is Lucjan.
