Luciano wa Samosata

Luciano wa Samosata (takriban 125 – baada ya 180) alikuwa mhutubu na mwandishi kutoka mji wa Samosata katika Syria wakati wa Dola la Roma. Lugha yake ya asili pengine ilikuwa Kisirya lakini kazi zake zote zilizohifadhiwa zimeandikwa kabisa kwa Kigiriki cha Kale. Mtindo wa maandiko yake ulikuwa hasa tashtiti ambamo  alikejeli ushirikina na desturi za kidini.

Luciano alikuwa na athari kubwa katika fasihi ya Magharibi. Kazi zilizochochewa na maandishi yake ni pamoja na Utopia ya Thomas More, kazi za François Rabelais, Timon of Athens ya William Shakespeare na Safari za Gulliver ya Jonathan Swift.

Zaidi ya kazi 80 zinazoaminiwa kuandikwa na Luciano zimehifadhiwa. Luciano alilenga hadhira ya Kigiriki iliyoelimika sana, ya tabaka la juu.

Lucian alikuwa mmoja wa waandishi wa kwanza wa riwaya katika ustaarabu wa magharibi.  Hadithi ya Kweli (  ) ilikuwa kazi ya masimulizi ya kubuni. Katika hadithi hii aliiga baadhi ya hadithi za ajabu zilizosimuliwa na Homer katika Odisei na pia habari  zilizorekodiwa na mwanahistoria Thucydides . C. Robinson, Lucian and his Influence in Europe (London, 1979), 23–25. A. Bartley, 2003, "The Implications of the Reception of Thucydides within Lucian's 'Vera Historia'", Hermes Heft, 131, pp. 222–234. Alitarajia mandhari ya kisasa bunilizi ya kisayansi ikiwa ni pamoja na safari za kwenda mwezini na hadi Zuhura, uhai wa nje na vita kati ya sayari. Riwaya hiyo mara nyingi huchukuliwa kuwa kazi ya kwanza inayojulikana ya bunilizi ya kisayansi. Grewell, Greg: "Colonizing the Universe: Science Fictions Then, Now, and in the (Imagined) Future", Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2001), pp. 25–47 (30f.). Fredericks, S.C.: “Lucian's True History as SF”, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 1976), pp. 49–60. Swanson, Roy Arthur: "The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian's Philosophical Science Fiction", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3 (November 1976), pp. 227–239.

 Matoleo 
 ; volume II; volume III; volume IV.
 ; volume II.
 Lucian’s True History, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, William Strang, and J. B. Clark, privately printed in an edition of 251 copies, 1894.“Beardsley (Aubrey Vincent)” in T. Bose, Paul Tiessen, eds., Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L: The Norman Colbeck Collection (UBC Press, 1987), p. 41
 ; volume II; volume III; volume IV.
 Lucian with an English translation (Loeb Classical Library), in 8 volumes: vols. 1–5 ed. Austin Morris Harmon (1913, 1915, 1921, 1925, 1936); vol. 6 ed. K. Kilburn (1959); vol. 7–8 ed. Matthew Donald Macleod (1961, 1967).
 Neil Hopkinson (ed.), Lucian: A Selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin Texts (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).


 Marejeo 

 Viungo vya nje 
 Works by or about Lucian of Samosata at Wikisource
 Works by or about Pseudo-Lucian at Wikisource
  Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Λουκιανός
 Lucian of Samosata Project – Library/Texts, Articles, Timeline, Maps, and Themes
 A.M. Harmon, Introduction to Lucian of Samosata
 Works by Lucian at Project Gutenberg
 Works by or about Lucian at Internet Archive
 Works by Lucian at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) 
 Dickinson College Commentaries: True Histories
 Alexander the False Prophet – the successful travelling prophet of Asclepius and his oracular serpent god
 Works of Lucian of Samostata at sacred-texts.com
 The Syrian Goddess, at sacred-texts.com
 Macrobii and Lucius (The Ass), at attalus.org
 Contents – Harvard University Press
 P. P. Fuentes González, art. Lucien de Samosate, DPhA IV, 2005, 131–160.  ISBN 2-271-06386-8
 Works of Lucian at the Perseus Digital Library Project
Jamii:Waliofariki karne ya 2
Jamii:Waandishi wa Ugiriki ya Kale