[Sca-cooks] Deipnosophists
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Thu Apr 5 08:51:53 PDT 2007
It turns out that Harvard University Press has a new edition of this
out. So far there's 2 volumes
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L208N.html
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L204N.html
The Learned Banqueters, I, Books 1-3.106e
The Learned Banqueters, II, Books 3.106e-5.
Athenaeus Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson
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 A.D.) 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 talk that was the heart
of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a
complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume
Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title /Deipnosophists/)
The next volume is due out in January 2008.
Johnnae
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