Samosata
Commagene (Asia Minor)
Capital of the small kingdom of Commagene on the upper Euphrates, remembered above all as the hometown of Lucian, the brilliant satirist who wrote in dazzling Greek though he came from this far eastern frontier.
12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 160
Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem
- 160
Abdicatus
- 180
Phalaris
- 180
Hippias
- 180
Bacchus
- 180
Hercules
- 180
Electrum
- 180
Muscae Encomium
- 180
Nigrinus
- 180
Demonax
- 180
De Domo
- 180
Patriae encomium
- 180
Macrobii
- 180
Verae historiae
- 180
Calumniae non temere credundum
- 180
Judicium vocalium
- 180
Symposium
- 180
Cataplus
- 180
Juppiter Confutatus
- 180
Juppiter Tragoedus
- 180
Gallus
- 180
Prometheus
- 180
Icaromenippus
- 180
Timon
- 180
Contemplantes
- 180
Vitarum auctio
- 180
Piscator
- 180
Bis accusatus sive tribunalia
- 180
De Sacrificiis
- 180
Somnium sive vita Luciani
- 180
De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam
- 180
Philopseudes sive incredulus
- 180
Dearum judicium
- 180
De mercede
- 180
Anacharsis
- 180
Necyomantia
- 180
De luctu
- 180
Rhetorum praeceptor
- 180
Alexander
- 180
Imagines
- 180
Pro imaginibus
- 180
De Syria dea
- 180
De Morte Peregrini
- 180
Fugitivi
- 180
Toxaris vel amicitia
- 180
De saltatione
- 180
Lexiphanes
- 180
Eunuchus
- 180
De astrologia
- 180
Pseudologista
- 180
Deorum concilium
- 180
Tyrannicida
- 180
Quomodo historia conscribenda sit
- 180
Dipsades
- 180
Saturnalia
- 180
Herodotus
- 180
Zeuxis
- 180
Pro lapsu inter salutandum
- 180
Apologia
- 180
Harmonides
- 180
Hesiod
- 180
Scytha
- 180
Hermotimus
- 180
Prometheus es in verbis
- 180
Navigium
- 180
Dialogi mortuorum
- 180
Dialogi Marini
- 180
Dialogi deorum
- 180
Dialogi meretricii
- 180
Soloecista [Sp.]
- 180
Podagra
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Samosata. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.