{"product_id":"athenaeus-and-his-world-reading-greek-culture-in-the-roman-empire-9780859896610","title":"Athenaeus and his World  Reading Greek Culture in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...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 *\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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 *\u003cbr\u003eCe 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAlthough 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAs the first major book on the Deipnosophistae, Athenaeus and His World provides a pleasingly varied introduction to an under-explored monument. * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword (Glen Bowersock, Princeton)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection I: General Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. David Braund (Exeter): Learning, luxury and empire: Athenaeus’ Roman patron\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. John Wilkins (Exeter): Dialogue and Comedy: the structure of the Deipnosophistae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection II: Text, Transmission and Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Geoffrey Arnott (Leeds): Athenaeus and the Epitome: texts, manuscripts and early editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Rosemary Bancroft-Marcus (Oxford): A dainty dish to set before a king: Natale Conti and his translation of Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection III: Athenaeus the Reader and his World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Dorothy Thompson (Cambridge): Athenaeus’ Egyptian background\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Christian Jacob (Paris): Athenaeus the Librarian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Yun Lee Too (Columbia): The Walking Library of Athenaeus: The Performance of Cultural Memories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Ewen Bowie (Oxford): Athenaeus’ knowledge of early Greek elegiac and iambic poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Keith Sidwell (Cork): Athenaeus, Lucian and fifth-century comedy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Giuseppe Zecchini (Milan): Athenaeus and Harpocration: historiographical relationships\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 Frank Walbank (Cambridge): Athenaeus and Polybius\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 Christopher Pelling (Oxford): Fun with fragments: Athenaeus and the historians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 Karim Arafat (London): The recalcitrant mass: Athenaeus and Pausanias\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 John Davies (Liverpool): Athenaeus’ use of public documents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 Ruth Webb (Princeton): Picturing the past: uses of ekphrasis in the Deipnosophistae and other works of the Second Sophistic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16 Maria Gambato (Padua): The female king: some aspects of representation of eastern kings in the Deipnosophistae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17 Keith Hopwood (Lampeter): Cultural politics in Smyrna, city of the sophists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection IV: Structural Overviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18 Lucia Rodriguez-Noriega Guillén (Oviedo): Are the 15 books of the Deipnosophistae an excerpt?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19 Luciana Romeri (Paris): The Logodeipnon: Athenaeus between banquet and anti-banquet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 Paola Ceccarelli (L’Aquila): Athenaeus and dance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21 James Davidson (London): Pleasure and Pedantry in Athenaeus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22 Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge): The politics and poetics of parasitism: Athenaeus on parasites and flatterers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23 Graham Anderson (Kent): The banquet of belles-lettres: Athenaeus and the comic symposium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Antonia Marchiori (Padua): Between Ichthyophagists and Syrians: features of fish-eating in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae Books Seven and Eight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection V: Key Authors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory Remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25 Malcolm Heath (Leeds): Do heroes eat fish? Athenaeus on the Homeric lifestyle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e26 Michael Trapp (London): Plato in the Deipnosophistae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e27 Maria Broggiato (London): Athenaeus, Crates and Attic glosses; a problem of attribution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e28 Andrew Dalby (Cambridge): The anecdotists (with the fragments of Lynceus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection VI: Sympotica\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e29 Silvia Milanezi (Grenoble): Laughter as dessert: on Athenaeus’ Book Fourteen, 613-616\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30 Richard Stoneman (London\/Exeter): You are what you eat: diet and philosophical diaita in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e31 Dwora Gilula (Jerusalem): Stratonicus, the witty harpist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e32 Andrew Barker (Birmingham): Athenaeus on music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e33 Elizabetta Villari (Genoa): Aristoxenus in Athenaeus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e34 Roger Brock (Leeds) and Hanneke Wirtjes (Oxford): Athenaeus on Greek wine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e35 Konstantinos Niafas (Brussels\/Exeter): Athenaeus and the cult of Dionysos Orthos; Deipn. 2. 38\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e36 Rebecca Flemming (London): Physicians at the feast: the place of medical knowledge at Athenaeus’ dining-table\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e37 Danielle Gourevitch (Paris): Doctors at supper: Hicesius’ fish and chips\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e38 Jean-Nicolas Corvisier (Arras): Athenaeus, medicine and demography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e39 Madeleine Henry (Iowa): Athenaeus, the Ur-Pornographer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection VII: The other Athenaeus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e40 David Braund (Exeter): Athenaeus, On the Kings of Syria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e41 John Wilkins (Exeter): Athenaeus and the Fishes of Archippus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex locorum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex of Subjects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359248744791,"sku":"9780859896610","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859896610.jpg?v=1754124105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/athenaeus-and-his-world-reading-greek-culture-in-the-roman-empire-9780859896610","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}