The Deipnosophists, Volume V: Books 11-12

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Athenaeus (ca. 170-ca. 230 CE), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, lived in Rome and wrote a historical work now lost. Of the fifteen books of his surviving Deipnosophists ('Sophists at Dinner'), the first two and parts of the third, eleventh, and fifteenth exist only in summary, the rest apparently complete. In it he pretends to tell a friend about a banquet at a scholar's house whither the learned guests brought extracts from poetry for recitation and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674993020

ISBN13:9780674993020

Release Date:January 1933

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:562 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 4.5" x 6.6"

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