The Learned Banqueters, Volume III: Books 6-7
| AUTHOR | Olson, S. Douglas; Olson, S. Douglas; Athenaeus et al. |
| PUBLISHER | Harvard University Press (02/01/2008) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Description
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).
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Product Format
Product Details
ISBN-13:
9780674996243
ISBN-10:
0674996240
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Page Count:
592
Carton Quantity:
20
Product Dimensions:
5.29 x 1.18 x 6.45 inches
Weight:
0.92 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Dust Cover,
Table of Contents,
Bilingual
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
Literary Criticism | Ancient - Greece
Dewey Decimal:
888.01
Library of Congress Control Number:
2006041321
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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).
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Author:
Athenaeus
Athenaeus (AD ca. 170–ca. 230), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, lived in Rome.
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Editor:
Olson, S. Douglas
S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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Translator:
Olson, S. Douglas
S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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