The Athenaeus, of Naucratis creator Yonge, Charles Duke 1812-1891 text utu 2021 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)" by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a work written around 200 AD. Set at a series of Roman banquets, it presents conversations among scholars, grammarians, and experts discussing literature, food, wine, music, and ancient culture. Through their dialogue, the work quotes from approximately 700 earlier Greek authors and 2,500 writings, preserving invaluable fragments of lost literature. This sprawling compendium offers a fictionalized glimpse into the intellectual world of the leisured class during the Roman Empire. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deipnosophistae Release date is 2021-10-10 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 Greece -- Social life and customs Civilization, Greco-Roman Dinners and dining -- Greece Homosexuality -- Greece PA Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66508 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66508 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134532.0 66508