The learned banqueters

Resource Information

The work The learned banqueters represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The learned banqueters

Statement of responsibility

Athenaeus ; edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson

Creator

• Athenaeus, of Naucratis
• Athenaeus, of Naucratis

Contributor

• Olson, S. Douglas

Author

• Athenaeus, of Naucratis
• Athenaeus, of Naucratis

Editor

• Olson, S. Douglas

Translator

• Olson, S. Douglas

Subject

• Gastronomy -- Early works to 1800
• Aphorisms and apothegms -- Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

• eng
• grc
• grc
• eng

Summary

In The Learned Banqueters (late-2nd century CE), Athenaeus describes 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.

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library)
• Loeb Classical Library, 327
• Loeb Classical Library, 345
• Loeb Classical Library, 519
• Loeb Classical Library, 204
• Loeb Classical Library, 208
• Loeb Classical Library, 224
• Loeb Classical Library, 235
• Loeb Classical Library, 274

Cataloging source

MaCbHUP

Language note

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages

LC call number

PA3937

LC item number

.A844 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Loeb Classical Library

Series volume

204, 208, 224, 235, 274, 327, 345, 519

Summary expansion

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)

Target audience

general