The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume I: Books 1–3.106e

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume I: Books 1–3.106eScholars 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

literary and historical contexts

στο χωριό ακριβώς απέναντι

Two A1 Posters packed with information

Proud of his earlier defeat of the Sphinx

'Mesmerising

The attempted coup culminated with the unmasking of the conspirators in the Senate

Part 1 deals with the constituent elements of the simple sentence

Plato’s Apology (Defence) of Socrates is a masterpiece of ancient rhetoric which philosophically illustrates in practice and illuminates in principle Plato’s version of Socrates’ dialectical method

πλάθει πρότυπα ή θαμπώνει τη λάμψη των ανθρώπων

user friendly edition has long remained popular

(iv) Histories (probably issued in parts from 105 onwards)

This is the first English edition with complete commentary of the play since 1891

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