Bust of Lucian of Samosata, image included by William Faithorne in John Dryden's The works of Lucian, translated from the Greek by several eminent hands, London, 1711.
Born in Roman Syria in the 2nd century CE, Lucian was a well-known satirist, social critic, and pamphleteer whose prose criticized organized religion, cults, superstition, and belief in magic.
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