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Sun and Moon image,left; Lucian, the satirist. Engraving by William Faithorne, The Library of Congress

6 February, 2018 - 14:00 dhwty

Satire or the First Science Fiction? Lucian of Samosata’s A True History

A True History (known in its original Greek as Alēthē diēgēmata , or in Latin as Vera Historia ) is a story written by Lucian of Samosata, an author of Syrian / Assyrian origin who lived during the 2...