TY - BOOK AU - Athenaeus,of Naucratis AU - Yonge,Charles Duke TI - The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (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 2021-10-10; 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66508 ER -