The Greek writer Loukianos, the most important representative of the Attic orators, was born in Samosata, Syria in 121 and died in Athens in 181. After touring many countries of the (then) known world and practising law and oratory, he established himself in Athens. He wrote more than 80 works in which he mocks mythology and the cynic philosophers, protests the poor distribution of wealth and exercises criticism against the vanity of manΓÇÖs desires.
