The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume V: Books 10.420e–11

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume V: Books 10.420e–11Scholars 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

a classic - together with its Northern Greece counterpart

the marginalized and the aberrant

but also as a reflection of the overwhelming changes that swept through Rome and Italy in the transition from the late Republic to the Augustan Age

and is now more than 2000 lines in length

It contains both text and translation and a brief commentary

καθεµιά µε τα δικά της κοµµάτια

Clark reflects upon the relationship between the ancient and the modern and considers the legacy and significance of the period today

together with his works on politics

cruelty and nobility

Greek text with facing translation

introduced through stories from the very beginning

translation and commentary contains the first detailed commentary on this speech