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Another note on Lucian of Samosata that isn't particularly important but that I still found interesting, is that he was born in Samosata, the ruins of which are now underwater because of a dam, although the modern city of Samsat is now nearby. Samosata is in modern-day Turkey. However, it's in the southeast of Turkey near modern-day Syria and in Lucian's time was part of 'Roman Syria' or Assyria, which correlates more closely to modern-day Syria, so pinning down a country for the selection was a little more complicated than usual, though if I had to pick only one modern country for Lucian I think I'd probably fall towards 'in spirit' rather than 'technically' and go with Syria (but I listed all the possibilities on the selection). Anyway, in Lucian's time it was part of a more Hellenistic culture and Lucian wrote in Greek.
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