The Learned Banqueters

Informationen zum Autor S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext 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 seven-volume Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title "Deipnosophists"). Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Athenaeus, Douglas Olson
• Assisted by: S. Douglas Olson (Editor), S. Douglas Olson (Translation), S. Douglas Olson (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2007
• EAN: 9780674996205
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99620-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 170 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Antike, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Altes Griechenland, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, HISTORY / Essays, Ancient History, Literary essays, Ancient history: to c 500 CE