Dionysus,  An Introductory Lecture, by Lucian of Samosata
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 19/01/2016

Lucian lived from about 125 to about 200 A.D., under the Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius, M. Aurelius and Lucius Verus, Commodus, and perhaps Pertinax. He was a Syrian, born at Samosata on the Euphrates, of parents to whom it was of importance that he should earn his living without spending much time or money on education. His maternal uncle being a statuary, he was apprenticed to him, having shown an aptitude for modelling in the wax that he surreptitiously scraped from his school writing-tablets. The apprenticeship lasted one day.

The Works of Lucian of Samosata tr. by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1905
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