![]() ![]() There is a comprehensive index in the final volume. The Loeb Classical Library edition of "The Deipnosophists" is in seven volumes. ![]() And it abounds in quotations, mostly made direct by Athenaeus himself, from authors whose writings have not survived. ![]() Whilst old Anacreon, wet with wine, And crownd with. The whole work, which mentions nearly eight hundred writers and two thousand five hundred writings, is a large treasury of information not only about table matters but also music, dances, games, and all sorts of literary subjects. 9 - Alcaeus strung his sounding lyre, And smote it with a hand of fire, To Sappho, fondest of the fair, Chanting the loud and lofty air. One learns about cooks, strange dishes, wines, menu cards, and countless other matters. Much of the matter however concerns the food provided and accessories. In it he pretends to tell a friend about a banquet at a scholar's house whither the learned guests brought extracts from poetry for recitation and discussion. Of the fifteen books of his surviving "Deipnosophists" ('Sophists at Dinner'), the first two and parts of the third, eleventh, and fifteenth exist only in summary, the rest apparently complete. 230 CE), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, lived in Rome and wrote a historical work now lost. ![]()
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