The Learned Banqueters: v. 2 (Loeb Classical Library) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Learned Banqueters: v. 2 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 2nd century A.D.) also contains a range of information about different cuisines, the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality.
Full description- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 31 January 2007
- Format: Hardback 416 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780674996212 ISBN 10: 0674996216
- Sales rank: 333,015
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Full description for The Learned Banqueters: v. 2
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 2nd century A.D.) 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 seven-volume "Loeb Athenaeus" (published under the title, "Deipnosophists").
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