In this dissertation, I explore how Lucian of Samosata, the Greco-Syrian prose satirist of the second century CE, manipulates the representation of space and time in his mythological texts. Lucian regularly employs characters, spaces, and tropes from myth as a central part of his broader comic engagement with earlier Greek cultural traditions and the contemporary social world of the so-called Second Sophistic. I argue that Lucian’s consistent play with creative spatiotemporal representation in mythological contexts is a central component of his highly literary satire. The dissertation is organized into four chapters, each showing how Lucian represents space and time in a distinct spatial domain: the imagined performance space, divine space, the afterlife, and belated terrestrial space. Chapter One argues that Lucian's prolaliae, short speeches performed as prefaces to larger works, construct an imagined performance space that encourages audiences to engage playfully with myth and his literary satire. Chapter Two examines Lucian's representation of divine spaces, highlighting how he uses the spatiotemporal rules of the setting to produce comedic divine characters who are products of their earlier literary depictions and keenly aware of their own belatedness. Chapter Three analyzes how Lucian depicts the underworld as a space where time is simultaneously collapsed, allowing for interactions between mythological, historical, and contemporary figures, and stagnant, limiting the potential for novelty. Chapter Four focuses on texts where historical, contemporary, and mythological figures interact in belated terrestrial settings. In these cases, Lucian deflates the status of the gods by bringing them into mundane contexts and elevates the belated world of mortals and even his literary production as worthy of divine intervention. Lucian’s playful manipulation of space and time, in each of these spatial domains, showcases his ingenuity as an author and encourages his audience to recognize their own capacity for creative engagement with their shared cultural traditions.