TY - BOOK AU - Athenaeus,of Naucratis AU - Yonge,Charles Duke TI - The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3) AV - PA PY - 2011/// 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 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.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36921 ER -