 Complete the following phrase:  Lucians writings were mostly forgotten during the Middle Ages. The Suda, a tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia, concludes that Lucians soul is burning in Hell for his negative remarks about Christians in the Passing of Peregrinus. Lucians writings were rediscovered during the Renaissance and almost immediately became popular with the Renaissance humanists. By 1400, there were just as many Latin translations of the works of Lucian as there were for the writings of Plato and Plutarch. By ridiculing plutocracy as absurd, Lucian helped facilitate one of Renaissance humanisms most basic themes. His Dialogues of the Dead were especially popular and were widely used for moral instruction. As a result of this popularity, Lucians writings had a profound influence on writers from the Renaissance and the 