The Web of Athenaeus (Paperback)

In The Web of Athenaeus, Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus’s Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 ce). Jacob provides the reader with a map and a compass to navigate the unfathomable number of intersecting paths in this enormous work: the books, the quotations, the diners, the dishes served, and—above all—the wordplay, all within the simulacrum of an ancient Greek library. A text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets, the Sophists at Dinner has now received a full literary re-imagining by Jacob, who connects the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans. The Web of Athenaeus simultaneously offers a literary history of the rarest and finest of Greek culture along with a creative anthropology of a Roman imperial world obsessed with the Greek past.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Hellenic Studies Series
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	Christian Jacob
Translators:	Arietta Papaconstantinou
Editors:	Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	150
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-07328-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-674-07328-2
Barcode:	9780674073289

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