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The Learned Banqueters
Harvard University Press, 2006 Cloth: 978-0-674-99639-7 Library of Congress Classification PA3937.A2 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 888.01
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets; and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality. See other books on: Aphorisms and apothegms | Athenaeus | Early works to 1800 | Learned Banqueters | Olson, S. Douglas See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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The Learned Banqueters
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Harvard University Press, 2006
Cloth: 978-0-674-99639-7
Cloth: 978-0-674-99639-7
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets; and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality.
S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).
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