The learned banqueters
Athenaeus, of Naucratis2007
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In 'The Learned Banqueters', Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The text is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost.
Main title:
The learned banqueters / Athenaeus ; edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson. Vol. 1.
Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Collation:
416 p. ; 17 cm.
Series title:
Loeb classical library ; 204
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the Ancient Greek.
ISBN:
9780674996205 (hbk)
Dewey class:
888.01
Language:
EnglishGreek, Ancient (to 1453)
BRN:
16109