Birth at Samosata
· Samosata (modern Samsat), Adıyaman Province, Turkey
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland · file Lucian was born at Samosata on the Euphrates, in Roman Syria. This is the starting point of the documented itinerary of the satirist later known as Lucian of Samosata. The year is conventionally approximate (c. 125), not an exact birth year.
