The Learned Banqueters, Volume V: Books 10.420e-11 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Scholars at dinner.

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 AD) 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:Greek, Ancient (To 1453)

ISBN:0674996321

ISBN13:9780674996328

Release Date:May 2009

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:528 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 4.6" x 6.4"

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