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In their opposition against the Homoian party supported by Emperor Constantius II, the Homoiousians claimed the legacy of Lucian and adopted the definition of 341 as their creed. [ 4 ] Other attempts to reconstruct Lucian's theology have started out with Paul of Samosata , whose rejection of the allegorizing tendencies of the Alexandrian School ...
Lucius probably derives from Latin word lux (gen. lucis), meaning "light" (<PIE *leuk-, "brightness"), related to the Latin verb lucere ("to shine") and cognate to the name Lucas. Another proposed etymology is derivation from Etruscan Lauchum (or Lauchme ) meaning " king ", which was more directly transferred into Latin as Lucumo .
Lucian of Samosata [a] (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, c. 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
Lucien Cramp in Cramp Twins; Lucien Debray in Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo; Lucien Lachance in the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; Lucien Fairfax, the main antagonist in the video game Fable II
Lucian. Opera.Amsterdam: Jacobus Wetstein, 1743. A list of works by Lucian (c. AD 125 – after AD 180), who wrote in Ancient Greek.. The order of the works is that of the Oxford Classical Texts edition.
Lulianos and Paphos (alt. sp. Julianus and Pappus, second-century CE) were two wealthy Jewish brothers who lived in Laodicea on the Lycus in Anatolia, contemporaries with Joshua ben Hananiah, [1] and who suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Roman legate.
The authorship of the work was first questioned in depth in an essay published in 1907 by a classicist named Robert Bloch. [3] In the late 1990s, Judith Mossman, without weighing in explicitly on the authorship of the text, comments, however, that "many of the literary techniques employed are utterly typical of Lucian himself; if this work is by an imitator, (s)he was a very skillful one."
Zeus is angry at Eros, who pleads for forgiveness, arguing that he is just a small child.Zeus, however, is not convinced, considering Eros' ancient age. Zeus demands to know why Eros continues to play tricks on him, causing him to transform into various forms: a satyr [note 1], a bull [note 2], gold [note 3], a swan [note 4], and an eagle [note 5], because Eros never makes women reciprocate ...