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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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Resumen: "The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)" by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a work written around 200 AD. Set at elaborate Roman banquets, this sprawling dialogue features grammarians, musicians, and scholars discussing food, wine, literature, and culture. Through their conversations, the work preserves invaluable fragments from approximately 700 earlier Greek authors and 2,500 writings—many now lost to history. The text includes ancient recipes, literary gossip, philosophical debates, and colorful details about the Hellenistic leisured class during the Roman Empire. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deipnosophistae

Release date is 2011-07-31

Produced by David Gil, Lisa Reigel, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
produced from images hosted by the University of Wisconsin's
Digital Collections.)

"The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)" by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a work written around 200 AD. Set at elaborate Roman banquets, this sprawling dialogue features grammarians, musicians, and scholars discussing food, wine, literature, and culture. Through their conversations, the work preserves invaluable fragments from approximately 700 earlier Greek authors and 2,500 writings—many now lost to history. The text includes ancient recipes, literary gossip, philosophical debates, and colorful details about the Hellenistic leisured class during the Roman Empire. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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