Lucian
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2nd-century Syrian satirist and rhetorician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lucian of Samosata was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Although his native language was probably Syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient Greek .
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