The Learned Banqueters, IV, Books 8-10.420e
Contributors: S. Douglas Olson (Translator)
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Published: May 15, 2008
Language: eng; grc
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780674996267
Subjects: History; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
Description: In The Learned Banqueters (late-2nd century CE), Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.
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