The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII : Books 13.594b–14

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII : Books 13.594b–14Scholars at dinner. 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 AD) 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

που απλώνεται βίαια και σαρωτικά

Κι αν τη δονούν ακόμη κάποιες εκλάμψεις

supported by the precocious young Octavian

Oedipus at Colonus

with a particular focus on letters from the earlier part of the collection

As a patriotic epic imitating Homer

consists at the start of carefully graded adaptations from original Classical Latin texts

The introduction deals with the didactic tradition in ancient literature and Lucretius' place in it

Modern Greek vocabulary

The edition is intended for students beginning their study of Homer as well as for more advanced scholars

µε αφετηρία αυτό το σηµείο

Only by understanding the usual rules