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).
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S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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Immediately after this, fried livers were brought in wrapped in what is called epiplous ("omentum, caul"),1 which Philetaerus in Tereus (fr. 16) refers to as epiploios. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wheat pudding, gold garland, baking shell, barley groats, eponymous archon, hydraulic organ, common messes, hyacinth bulbs, wafer bread, single pipe, unmixed wine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Immediately after this, fried livers were brought in wrapped in what is called epiplous ("omentum, caul"),1 which Philetaerus in Tereus (fr. 16) refers to as epiploios. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wheat pudding, gold garland, baking shell, barley groats, eponymous archon, hydraulic organ, common messes, hyacinth bulbs, wafer bread, single pipe, unmixed wine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kai Xpv, Also Aristophanes, Demetrius of Scepsis, History of Philip New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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