The learned banqueters
Athenaeus, of Naucratis2008
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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. 3 Books 6-7.
Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Collation:
576 p.
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Notes:
Translated from the Ancient Greek.
ISBN:
9780674996243 (hbk)
Dewey class:
888.01
Language:
EnglishGreek, Ancient (to 1453)
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BRN:
16123