Reddit reviews Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches

He was Syrian by birth, but he called himself a Greek.

'Though he himself appears to have been from the non-Greek, Semitic population of Samosata, the culture by which he defined himself was Greek.' Which is from the introduction of this book.

In any case, you're clearly reposting the link in several different subs. I think even /r/Byzantium would be more appropriate since his works were quite popular in that era, though he was not of it himself.