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Continuation of the discussion of the Gourmets. Special reference to seafood and types of bread.
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 spanned between the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century AD (approximately 170-230 AD), as we can infer from internal evidence in his work.
The Athenian, a product of late sophistry, remains in the realm of ancient Greek literature as the author of the 'Gourmets'. The work is characterized as a manual of gastronomy (it is the oldest book we have with recipes for food preparation), but at the same time, it is a rich source of material on dining and typical banquets, and, even more, an anthology of encyclopedic and other knowledge covering the full range of human interests.
Moreover, the Gourmets is a composition with successive recordings of excerpts from hundreds of authors of poetic and prose works (about 800) and from more than three times that number (about 2500) of works, so it can be said that if this significant source had not been preserved, our knowledge of Greek antiquity would be incomplete.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Athinaios o Naykratitis
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kaktos
- Genre
- Ancient Greek Literature
- Subtitle
- Diphosphonist C
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 332
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Language
- Greek
- Original text
- No
- Translation
- No
- Bilingual edition
- Yes
- ISBN-13
- 9789603524274
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