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The Learned Banqueters
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Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. This work (which dates to the very end of the 2nd century A.D.) also contains a range of information about different cuisines, the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality.
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The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus
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- 2007
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- Title
- The Learned Banqueters
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Athenaeus
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0674996216
- ISBN13
- 9780674996212
- Category
- Social sciences, History, Prehistoric and ancient times
- Description
- Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. This work (which dates to the very end of the 2nd century A.D.) also contains a range of information about different cuisines, the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality.