The Learned Banqueters, Volume I: Books 1–3.106e (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

Athenaeus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674996208 ISBN 13: 9780674996205

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

Review

“The re-evaluation of Athenaeus continues. This is the very welcome first volume of a new Loeb edition of the Deipnosophistae intended to replace the set of volumes edited by Charles Gulick (1927-41).”―J. L. Lightfoot, Exemplaria Classica

“Essential for food historians. Excellent Value.”―AKD, Petits Propos Culinaires

“One of the main advantages of Olson's new edition is that it is reader-friendly. When The Learned Banqueters quotes from a known author, Olson follows the text of, and gives the reference to, the best modern edition, making it easy for the reader to look up the citation in its original context...Olson's translation is largely excellent, and captures the spirit of the different authors quoted.”―Helen Morales, Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0674996208
• ISBN 13: 9780674996205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 624