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The Learned Banqueters
Athenaeus
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Description for The Learned Banqueters
Hardcover.
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 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).
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674996205
SKU
V9780674996205
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Ref
99-2
About Athenaeus
S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Reviews for The Learned Banqueters
One of the main advantages of Olson’s new edition is that it is reader-friendly. When The Learned Banqueters quotes from a known author, Olson follows the text of, and gives the reference to, the best modern edition, making it easy for the reader to look up the citation in its original context... Olson’s translation is largely excellent, and captures the spirit of the different authors quoted.
Helen Morales
Times Literary Supplement
The re-evaluation of Athenaeus continues. This is the very welcome first volume of a new Loeb edition of the Deipnosophistae intended to replace the set of volumes edited by Charles Gulick (1927–41).
J. L. Lightfoot
Exemplaria Classica
Essential for food historians. Excellent Value.
AKD
Petits Propos Culinaires
Helen Morales
Times Literary Supplement
The re-evaluation of Athenaeus continues. This is the very welcome first volume of a new Loeb edition of the Deipnosophistae intended to replace the set of volumes edited by Charles Gulick (1927–41).
J. L. Lightfoot
Exemplaria Classica
Essential for food historians. Excellent Value.
AKD
Petits Propos Culinaires