The Deipnosophists, Volume II: Books 3.106e-5

by Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus (AD ca. 170ca. 230), 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:0674992296

ISBN13:9780674992290

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:542 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 4.5" x 6.6"

Related Subjects

History Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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