The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

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Lucian of Samosata (c. 125-p. 180 CE) was a second century Syrian writer possessed of immense Greek education whose satirical works, somewhat miraculously, survived Christian censorship in late antiquity and the Middle Ages to make it to the present. I say “miraculously” very much intentionally, for two reasons: first, Lucian was a skeptic of all things…