Lucian of Samosata Author

Lucian of Samosata (ca. 125–ca. 185 CE) was a rhetorician, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was born in Samosata (modern Türkiye) and is believed to have died in Egypt. Over eighty extant works, including satires, dialogues, and a partial novel (True History), are attributed to Lucian. Cynthia C. Polsley is a classical philologist, researcher, and commentator based in Kansas. A spinal cord injury survivor and entrepreneur, she is the author of numerous books, including The Bible and the Holographic Universe and the self-published science fiction/meta-myth series Ifscapes. She contributed to The Sky Is Our Song, Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus, and coauthored, with Lombardo, a translation of Argonautica.