It is sometimes called the oldest surviving cookbook. It is a long 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. The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of M… More.Īthenaeus (Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. Illustrated, The Deipnosophistae - new bookĪthenaeus (Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. Athenaeus: The Complete Works of Athenaeus.
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