I love lucian the Assyrian writing. Weird and strangely modern
He was blessed to live in the Roman world, which produced satirists like Juvenal. Quite a bio for being so sparse — Assyrian ancestry, grew up speaking Aramaic, wound up living here and there all over the Empire, looks like he relied on patronage throughout his life and career(s).
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucian