The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume II: Books 3.106e–5

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume II: Books 3.106e–5Scholars 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

with the second-century Roman

the nature of Athenian law and legal oratory and the style and textual tradition of Antiphon

Sophocles and Euripides

Lane Fox goes on to consider hallmarks of the poem

and others

Text with facing translation

On the City of God (seven volumes)

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Greek text with facing translation

Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism

This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox

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