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Philosophical, political, and historical issues. References to the actions of kings and rulers. The Athenian was born in Naucratis, Egypt, lived in Alexandria, and died in Rome. His life, about which we have very little information, seems to have taken place between the end of the 2nd century and the beginning of the 3rd century A.D. (approximately 170-230 A.D.), as we can infer from internal evidence of his work.
The Athenian, a product of late Sophism, remains in the realm of ancient Greek literature as the author of the Deipnosophists. The work is characterized as a manual of gastronomy (it is the oldest book we have with guidance for food preparation), but it is also a rich source of material on dining culture and typical symposia, and even more, it is an anthology of encyclopedic and other knowledge covering the entirety of human interests.
Moreover, the Deipnosophists is a composition with successive recordings of excerpts from hundreds of authors of poetic and prose works (approximately 800) and from over three times that amount (about 2500) of works, so it can be said that if this extremely important source had not survived, our knowledge of Greek antiquity would be incomplete.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Athinaios o Naykratitis
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kaktos
- Genre
- Ancient Greek Literature
- Subtitle
- Diphosphonist E
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 249
- Release Date
- 01/01/1997
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Language
- Greek
- Original text
- No
- Translation
- No
- Bilingual edition
- Yes
- ISBN-13
- 9789603524298
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