The Learned Banqueters, Volume IV: Books 810.420e (Hardcover)

Athenaeus

ISBN 10: 0674996267 / ISBN 13: 9780674996267

Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2008

Beschreibung

Hardcover. In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets; and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists). A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780674996267

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Learned Banqueters, Volume IV: Books 810.420e (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674996267
• ISBN-13: 9780674996267
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Scholars at dinner.

In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets; and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.