The Learned Banqueters, Volume VIII: Book 15. Index

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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:English

ISBN:0674996763

ISBN13:9780674996762

Release Date:May 2012

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 4.6" x 7.4"

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