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Greek anecdotes
Greek banquets
Greek conviviality
Greek cuisine
Greek culture
Greek customs
Greek intellectual life
Greek literature
Greek music
Greek quotations
Greek symposia
intellectual talk
Loeb Classical Library
lost works
S. Douglas Olson
second century AD
The Learned Banqueters
Product details
- ISBN 9780674996267
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 108 x 162mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2008
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Scholars at dinner.
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. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).
S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.
