The Shelves · Miscellaneous writings
Dinner (addressed to Cyrebion)
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Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Known · AttestedCallimachus's own placement
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Miscellaneous writings: “writings on dinners”
Known · AttestedCallimachus's own placementChaerephon
Dinner
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Opening words
ἐπειδή μοι πολλάκις ἐκέλευσας
Since you have often bidden me...
Length: 375 lines
Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.
II · Does it survive? Where to read it
Lost
Known only from its Pinakes entry, quoted by Athenaeus.
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · AttestedAcquired for the Library.
In the cupboard: an ancient source reports it entering the collection or the Pinakes.
Read it today
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.244a (Yonge translation, vol. 1) · a translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
III · In the show
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IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references
- Athenaeus 6.244a
Modern scholarship (2)
- R. Pfeiffer (ed.), Callimachus, vol. I: Fragmenta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949)
- R. Blum, Kallimachos: The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography, trans. H. H. Wellisch (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991; German 1977)
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