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Deipnosophistae (The Learned Banqueters)

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Conjecturedin Alexandria?Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

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I · The entry, in his form

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Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

Athenaeus of Naucratis

Deipnosophistae

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Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in large part

Was it in Alexandria?

Conjectured

Of the Egyptian milieu. By an Egyptian Greek from Naucratis; set in Rome. It is the main surviving quarry of Alexandrian learning.

On the ledge: written in Egypt or in a tradition the city shaped; not known in the Library.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references
  • Athenaeus 1.3a-b; 1.22d; 6.244a; 13.585b
Modern scholarship (2)
  • D. Braund and J. Wilkins (eds), Athenaeus and His World (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000).
  • S. D. Olson, Athenaeus: The Learned Banqueters, 8 vols (Loeb Classical Library; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006-2012).

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