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The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Athenaeus
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1854 - Publisher:

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The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Athenaeus
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-05 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 Deipnosophists, Or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)
Categories: Gastronomy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1854 - Publisher:

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The author of The Deipnosophists was an Egyptian, born in Naucratis, a town on the left side of the Canopic Mouth of the Nile. The age in which he lived is some
The Web of Athenaeus
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Christian Jacob
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Christian Jacob presents a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 ce), a text long mined merely for its testimonies to l
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch
Language: en
Pages: 721
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-07 - Publisher: BRILL

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The Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-125 AD) makes a fascinating case-study for reception studies not least because of his uniquely