THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS OR BANQUET OF THE LEARNED OF ATHENAEUS. VOLUME III.

Yonge, C. D., Translator.

Published by Henry G. Bohn, London

About this Item

1854, pp817-1252, plus 24-page publisher's catalog, index for all three volumes. Covers somewhat discolored, extremities moderately worn, contents VG. With an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index. Each volume complete in itself. From Bohn's Classical Library series. Athenaeus was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, who lived during the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives. It is a work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets held by the protagonist Publius Livius Larensis for an assembly of grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians, and hangers-on. It is filled with the type of scholarly material that learned men might discuss over dinner, thus the title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS OR BANQUET OF THE LEARNED OF ATHENAEUS. VOLUME III.
• Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, London
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good