Author : Athenaeus
Release : 2011-01-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII write by Athenaeus. This book was released on 2011-01-05. The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 CE) 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 Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).