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| #883605 in Books | 2010-05-31 | 2010-06-30 | Original language:Ancient Greek | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.00 x4.40l,.65 | File type: PDF | 445 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great New Translation|By Edward Yarborough|The previous Loeb translation of Athenaeus was adequate, save for the annoying way the translator rendered all the salacious passages into Latin rather than English; this new translation, fortunately, isn't afraid to call a spade a spade: everything, and I do mean everything, is translated into modern, frank, English. This fresh, reada||One of the main advantages of Olson's new edition is that it is reader-friendly. When The Learned Banqueters quotes from a known author, Olson follows the text of, and gives the reference to, the best modern edition, making it easy for the reader to look up th
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 CE) 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 banquets; and the intellectual ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Learned Banqueters, Volume VI: Books 12-13.594b (Loeb Classical Library) | Athenaeus of Naucratis. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
