The Learned Banqueters, Volume VIII (Hardcover)

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. Volume VIII completes S. Douglas Olson's complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists) and includes comprehensive indexes of authors, terms, texts, and places.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Loeb Classical Library
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	May 2012
Authors:	Athenaeus
Editors:	S. Douglas Olson
Dimensions:	162 x 108 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With printed dust jacket
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-99676-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	0-674-99676-3
Barcode:	9780674996762

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