The Learned Banqueters: Books 13.594b-14 v. 7 (Loeb Classical Library) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Learned Banqueters: Books 13.594b-14 v. 7 Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. This work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) includes information about different cuisines and foodstuffs, the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality.
Full description- Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
- Published: 05 January 2011
- Format: Hardback 416 pages
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- Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Sociology: Customs & Traditions | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780674996731 ISBN 10: 0674996739
- Sales rank: 292,543
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Full description for The Learned Banqueters: Books 13.594b-14 v. 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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