Lucian of Samosata (Greek Λουκιανός ο Σαμοσατεύς, Latin Lucianus), or Samosata (Samosata, Syria, 125-181), a Syrian writer of Greek expression, one of the first comedians, belonging to the Second call sophistry. Most of the biographical information we have of Lucian of Samosata are fictitious sources, making it difficult to determine the veracity. As such it is assumed that he was apprenticed to the sculptor; He practiced law in Antioch, but not used to a sedentary life was devoted to sophistry and traveled around the Mediterranean during the reign of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius lecturing; it is quite possible to teach rhetoric somewhere in the Roman Empire. His native language was Aramaic however soon learned Attic Greek.