page_title: Library of Sir Thomas Browne
section_title: Greek literature
hierarchical_section_title: Library of Sir Thomas Browne / Greek literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, in five books, edited by Isaac Casaubon (Athenaiou Deipnosophiston biblia pentekaideka; Athenaei Deipnosophistarum, libri quindecim)
context_page_description: The 1711 Sales Auction Catalogue of the Library of Sir Thomas Browne highlights the erudition of the physician, philosopher and encyclopedist, Sir Thomas Browne. It also illustrates the proliferation, distribution and availability of books printed throughout 17th century Europe which were purchased by the intelligentsia, aristocracy, priestly, physician or educated merchant-class.
context_section_description: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides ed. Johannes Meursius Leiden 1612
  Archimedes, Opera 1615
  Aristotle Opera, 1615
  Rhetorica, 1619
  De Mundo, 1591
  Problemata, 1632
  Aristophanes Comedies XI, Leiden 1624
  Arrian, Ponti Euxini, Geneva 1577
  de Venatione, Paris 1644
  Apollonius of Rhodes   Argonautica 2 vols. Leiden 1641
  Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae or Banquet of the learned ed. Isaac Casaubon 1612
  Epicurus Philosophy of, ed. Pierre Gassendi 2 vols. Leiden 1649
  Euclid Elementorum Libri 6. priores, London 1620
  Euripides Tragedies, 1562
  Homer Opera, Basle 1612
  Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras
  The Mysteries of Egyptians and Chaldeans, Leyden 1670
  Lucian, Opera, 1546
  Dialogi Selectiores, Paris 1572
  Philo Opera, Cologne 1613
  Plato Chalcidii Timaeus, Leiden 1617 (ed. Johannes Meursius)
  Sibyllina Oracula, 1607
  Theophrastus Characters, notes by Isaac Casaubon, Leyden 1638
  Xenophon, Cyropaedia Gk & Lat London 1674
caption: Frontispiece to 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists
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