TY - BOOK AU - Athenaeus,of Naucratis AU - Yonge,Charles Duke TI - The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 2 (of 3) AV - PA PY - 2021/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Greece -- Social life and customs KW - Civilization, Greco-Roman KW - Dinners and dining -- Greece KW - Homosexuality -- Greece N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deipnosophistae; Release date is 2021-04-07; Brian Wilsden, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 2 (of 3)" by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a work written around 200 AD. This elaborate dialogue recounts banquets hosted by wealthy patron Publius Livius Larensis, where scholars, musicians, and jurists gather for refined conversation. Through their discussions, the work preserves invaluable quotations from approximately 700 earlier Greek authors and 2,500 writings, many otherwise lost to history. Topics range from food and wine to literary gossip, sexual mores, and philology, offering a rich window into Hellenistic culture during the Roman Empire. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65023 ER -