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237: 531: 309:, but the conversation extends to enormous length. The topics for discussion generally arise from the course of the dinner itself, but extend to literary and historical matters of every description, including abstruse points of grammar. The guests supposedly quote from memory. The actual sources of the material preserved in the 512: 270:, but otherwise the work seems to be complete. It is an immense store-house of information, chiefly on matters connected with famous cooks, dining, but also containing remarks on music, songs, dances, philosophy, games, 316:
The twenty-four named guests include individuals called Galen and Ulpian, but they are all probably fictitious personages, and the majority take no part in the conversation. If the character Ulpian is identical with
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professes to be an account given by an individual named Athenaeus to his friend Timocrates of a banquet held at the house of Larensius (Λαρήνσιος; in Latin:
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alone. Were it not for Athenaeus, much valuable information about the ancient world would be missing, and many ancient Greek authors such as
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and other comic poets, and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost. Of his works, only the fifteen-volume
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would be almost entirely unknown. Book XIII, for example, is an important source for the study of sexuality in
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amongst scholars during the 17th century following its publication in 1612 by the Classical scholar
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The complete version of the text, with the gaps noted above, is preserved in only one
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remain obscure, but much of it probably comes at second hand from early scholars.
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may have been written after his death in 223; but the jurist was murdered by the
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wrote a short essay upon Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the
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Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the
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Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire
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belongs to the literary tradition inspired by the use of the
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Late 2nd/early 3rd century Greek rhetorician and grammarian
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Athenaei Naucratitae Dipnosophistarum Libri XV, Vol. 3
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Index

Athenaios
Athenaeus (disambiguation)
Athanasius of Alexandria
Naucratis
Roman Empire
rhetorician
Deipnosophistae
Naucratis
/ˌæθəˈnəs/
Ancient Greek
Latin
Suda
Marcus Aurelius
Commodus
Adrantus
Archippus
Deipnosophistae
Deipnosophistae

Greek banquet
Kottabos
Aulos
Deipnosophistae
epitome
courtesans
Athenian Middle Comedy
Archestratus
classical
Hellenistic Greece
Theognetus

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