The Learned Banqueters, Volume III: Books 6–7

by Athenaeus of Naucratis, S. Douglas Olson (Translator/Editor)

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").

592 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1929

About the author

Athenaeus of Naucratis (Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.

Alternate names:
Ateneo de Náucratis (Spanish)

Reviews

[Barbara T.]

The fish volume. Not as much fun history and lots of lists and Greek grammar