Then at length Proteus was apprehended for this and thrown into prison he Christians, regarding the incident as a calamity, left nothing undone in the effort to rescue him So it was then in the case of Peregrinus much money came to him from them by reason of his imprisonment, and he procured not a little revenue from it. He interpreted and explained some of their books and even composed many, and they revered him as a god, made use of him as a lawgiver, and set him down as a protector, next after that other, to be sure, whom 11 they still worship, the man who was crucified in Palestine because he introduced this new cult into the world. And-how else could it be?-in a trice he made them all look like children, for he was prophet, cult-leader, head of the synagogue, and everything, all by himself.

It was then that he learned the wondrous lore of the Christians, by associating with their priests and scribes in Palestine. 170 CE), recounting the words of a speaker in a town square after a man named Proteus had thrown himself into a fire: Several apologists, looking for evidence for the existence of Jesus, have cited the following statement by Lucian (ca. It starts out with a skeptic named Tychiades who gets in an argument with some friends about alternative medicine and then they start telling him bat-crazy stories involving statues that come to life, haunted houses, and a whole host of other nonsense, culminating with the famous story of 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice.' He also wrote a bunch of work making fun of traditional Greek religious beliefs including Dialogues of the Gods, Zeus the Opera Star (no, really), and The Parliament of the Gods. Another fun work he wrote is The Lover of Lies, a dialogue making fun of belief in the supernatural.

It's regarded by many as the first known work of science fiction.

Lucian's most famous work is A True Story, a satire against tall tales, containing space travel, aliens, and interplanetary war.

Gerçek Bir Hikaye by Lucian of Samosata