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Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi

Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi

Update: 2021-05-21

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In roughly the 160s CE, the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote A True Story, one of history’s earliest surviving novels, with strong tinges of what we’d call science fiction.

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Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi

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