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Christian Jacob presents a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 CE), a text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets. Connecting the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans, Jacob helps the reader navigate the many intersecting paths in this enormous work.

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Jacob surveys Athenaeus’s characters and themes; the role of libraries and Athenaeus’s relation to the past; the intersection of Greek symposium with Roman dinner party; how people read; why they were so passionate about words, many of them obsolete or arcane; what such a work might have meant to the original readership; and how the whole farrago hangs together… The book is a welcome introduction to a type of literature that has had a great influence. -- D. Konstan * Choice *

The Web of Athenaeus

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      Publisher Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
      Published 27 May 2013
      ISBN-13 9780674073289
      978-0674073289
      ISBN-10 0674073282
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical Ancient history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Christian Jacob presents a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 CE), a text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets. Connecting the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans, Jacob helps the reader navigate the many intersecting paths in this enormous work.

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      Jacob surveys Athenaeus’s characters and themes; the role of libraries and Athenaeus’s relation to the past; the intersection of Greek symposium with Roman dinner party; how people read; why they were so passionate about words, many of them obsolete or arcane; what such a work might have meant to the original readership; and how the whole farrago hangs together… The book is a welcome introduction to a type of literature that has had a great influence. -- D. Konstan * Choice *

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