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Book SynopsisThe book makes sense of the massive and polyphonous Deipnosophistae, the quarry upon which classicists and ancient historians depend for their knowledge of much ancient literature, particularly Comedy, and also the source of much of the data used by modern historians for the social history of the classical and Hellenistic worlds.
Trade Review...those interested in particular themes in the Deipnosophistae will therefore want to browse the contents of several sections. Fortunately this is made easy by the editors' introductory remarks to each section, which summarise each chapter's main arguments as well as defining its place within the section and in Athenian scholarship. These remarks provide valuable orientation in a collection of this scope. * Scholia Reviews ns 13, 35 *
From the team that brought you Food in Antiquity, and in matching format, Athenaeus has everything: lots of food, buckets of otherwise unknown texts, material on dining customs in late antiquity, and a considerable body of material on sex . . . This volume should go some way towards a broader understanding. * Petits Propos Culinaires No. 66 *
Ce magnifique ouvrage . . . Mais les amateurs de musique, tout comme les lecteurs d'Homere et de Platon, auront egalement beaucoup a glaner dans cet ouvrage qui, sans nul doute, marque une etape nouvelle et incontournable dans le renouveau des etudes sur Athenee. * Revue des Etudes Greques, No. 114 *
Although Athenaeus' magnum opus is so crucial a text for our knowledge of classical literature and society, his own work has received astonishingly little interest among scholars. In response to this palpable oversight, the editors some years ago organised an international conference to celebrate and explore Athenaeus and his legacy. This weighty volume includes most of the papers from that conference . . . Each contributor is an expert in his specialist field and so offers a uniquely scholarly insight into Athenaeus, his sources and reliability . . . Each contribution is backed up by a wealth of scholarly notes and a helpful general bibliography . . . There is something for everyone here, whether scholar or just interested Hellenist. It might even make you turn to Athenaeus himself and start reading him. * The Anglo-Hellenic Review, No. 25, Spring *
As the first major book on the Deipnosophistae, Athenaeus and His World provides a pleasingly varied introduction to an under-explored monument. * Times Literary Supplement *
Table of Contents
- Foreword (Glen Bowersock, Princeton)
- Section I: General Introduction
- Introductory remarks
- 1. David Braund (Exeter): Learning, luxury and empire: Athenaeus’ Roman patron
- 2. John Wilkins (Exeter): Dialogue and Comedy: the structure of the Deipnosophistae
- Section II: Text, Transmission and Translation
- Introductory remarks
- 3. Geoffrey Arnott (Leeds): Athenaeus and the Epitome: texts, manuscripts and early editions
- 4. Rosemary Bancroft-Marcus (Oxford): A dainty dish to set before a king: Natale Conti and his translation of Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
- Section III: Athenaeus the Reader and his World
- Introductory remarks
- 5. Dorothy Thompson (Cambridge): Athenaeus’ Egyptian background
- 6. Christian Jacob (Paris): Athenaeus the Librarian
- 7. Yun Lee Too (Columbia): The Walking Library of Athenaeus: The Performance of Cultural Memories
- 8. Ewen Bowie (Oxford): Athenaeus’ knowledge of early Greek elegiac and iambic poetry
- 9. Keith Sidwell (Cork): Athenaeus, Lucian and fifth-century comedy
- 10. Giuseppe Zecchini (Milan): Athenaeus and Harpocration: historiographical relationships
- 11 Frank Walbank (Cambridge): Athenaeus and Polybius
- 12 Christopher Pelling (Oxford): Fun with fragments: Athenaeus and the historians
- 13 Karim Arafat (London): The recalcitrant mass: Athenaeus and Pausanias
- 14 John Davies (Liverpool): Athenaeus’ use of public documents
- 15 Ruth Webb (Princeton): Picturing the past: uses of ekphrasis in the Deipnosophistae and other works of the Second Sophistic
- 16 Maria Gambato (Padua): The female king: some aspects of representation of eastern kings in the Deipnosophistae
- 17 Keith Hopwood (Lampeter): Cultural politics in Smyrna, city of the sophists
- Section IV: Structural Overviews
- Introductory remarks
- 18 Lucia Rodriguez-Noriega Guillén (Oviedo): Are the 15 books of the Deipnosophistae an excerpt?
- 19 Luciana Romeri (Paris): The Logodeipnon: Athenaeus between banquet and anti-banquet
- 20 Paola Ceccarelli (L’Aquila): Athenaeus and dance
- 21 James Davidson (London): Pleasure and Pedantry in Athenaeus
- 22 Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge): The politics and poetics of parasitism: Athenaeus on parasites and flatterers
- 23 Graham Anderson (Kent): The banquet of belles-lettres: Athenaeus and the comic symposium
- 24 Antonia Marchiori (Padua): Between Ichthyophagists and Syrians: features of fish-eating in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae Books Seven and Eight
- Section V: Key Authors
- Introductory Remarks
- 25 Malcolm Heath (Leeds): Do heroes eat fish? Athenaeus on the Homeric lifestyle
- 26 Michael Trapp (London): Plato in the Deipnosophistae
- 27 Maria Broggiato (London): Athenaeus, Crates and Attic glosses; a problem of attribution
- 28 Andrew Dalby (Cambridge): The anecdotists (with the fragments of Lynceus)
- Section VI: Sympotica
- Introductory remarks
- 29 Silvia Milanezi (Grenoble): Laughter as dessert: on Athenaeus’ Book Fourteen, 613-616
- 30 Richard Stoneman (London/Exeter): You are what you eat: diet and philosophical diaita in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
- 31 Dwora Gilula (Jerusalem): Stratonicus, the witty harpist
- 32 Andrew Barker (Birmingham): Athenaeus on music
- 33 Elizabetta Villari (Genoa): Aristoxenus in Athenaeus
- 34 Roger Brock (Leeds) and Hanneke Wirtjes (Oxford): Athenaeus on Greek wine
- 35 Konstantinos Niafas (Brussels/Exeter): Athenaeus and the cult of Dionysos Orthos; Deipn. 2. 38
- 36 Rebecca Flemming (London): Physicians at the feast: the place of medical knowledge at Athenaeus’ dining-table
- 37 Danielle Gourevitch (Paris): Doctors at supper: Hicesius’ fish and chips
- 38 Jean-Nicolas Corvisier (Arras): Athenaeus, medicine and demography
- 39 Madeleine Henry (Iowa): Athenaeus, the Ur-Pornographer
- Section VII: The other Athenaeus
- Introductory remarks
- 40 David Braund (Exeter): Athenaeus, On the Kings of Syria
- 41 John Wilkins (Exeter): Athenaeus and the Fishes of Archippus
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of Subjects
