Learned Banqueters, Volume VI: Books 12–13.594b
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 31, 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780674996397
Subjects: Aphorisms and apothegms
Description: 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 ).