Lucian of Samosata (c. 120-180+)
“I didn’t want just to look at cities and mountains as in paintings, but at men themselves and what they are saying and doing.”
- From Charon or The Observers (section 6) by Lucian of Samosata, translated by C. D. N. Costa in Lucian: Selected Dialogues (Oxford University Press / Oxford World Classics, 2005, 2006, 2009).
