The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)

"The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a work written around 200 AD. Set at a series of Roman banquets, it presents conversations among scholars, grammarians, and experts discussing literature, food, wine, music, and ancient culture. Through their dialogue, the work quotes from approximately 700 earlier Greek authors and 2,500 writings, preserving invaluable fragments of lost literature. This sprawling compendium offers a fictionalized glimpse into the intellectual world of the leisured class during the Roman Empire. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Translator Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891
Title The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deipnosophistae
Credits Brian Wilsden, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
Subject Greece -- Social life and customs
Subject Civilization, Greco-Roman
Subject Dinners and dining -- Greece
Subject Homosexuality -- Greece
Category Text
eBook-No. 66508
Release Date
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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