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Athenaeus
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Athenaeus of Naucratis (; or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus.
Athenaeus of Naucratis was an ancient Greek scholar and teacher of rhetoric and grammar who lived around the late 2nd and early 3rd century AD. He matters to historians because his surviving writings preserve extensive knowledge about ancient Greek culture, society, and daily life that would otherwise be lost.
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- 2nd century AD
- Works
- 87
Top works
- Deipnosophistae, libri XV. Cum rerum et scriptorum Indicibus ad optimorum librorum fidem accurate editi
- Deipnosophistarum libri quindecim
- Deipnosophistae livri xv
- Deipnosophistarum libri xv
- Les qvinze livres des Deipnosophistes d'Athénée de la ville de Navcrate d'Egypte, ecrivain d'une érudition consommée & presque le plus sçavant des Grecs
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Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus (Greek: Ἀθήναιος) was an ancient Greek (Athenian) composer and musician who flourished around 138–128 BC, when he composed the First Delphic Hymn. Although it was long thought that the composer of the First Hymn was merely "an Athenian", careful reading of the inscription shows that it cannot be the ethnic Athenaîos (from Athens), but rather names Athénaios Athenaíou (Athenaeus, son of Athenios) as the composer. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Athenaeus">Read more
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5 total works indexed
- The Learned Banqueters
· 2007 · cited 28x
- Athenaei Dipnosophistarum epitome
· 1939 · cited 3x
- Athenaeus, the Deipnosophists. Volume 6
· 1939 · cited 1x
- Athenaei Naucratitae Dipnosophistarum libri XV, Vol. III, Libri XI-XV. Indices
· 1992 · cited 1x
- Athenaei Dipnosophistarum epitome
· 2024
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Quotes
- “For it would be unbecoming, says Aristotle, to come to banquet covered in sweat and dust; for the true gentleman should neither be dirty nor be unwashed nor [Rejoice in mire], as Heraclitus says.”
- “It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."”
- “Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”
- “Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.”
- “On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.”
- “οὐκ ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ τὸ εὖ κείμενον εἶναι, ἀλλὰ ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ μέγα.”
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- Athenaeus of Naucratis
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- Late 2nd century AD
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- Naucratis, Roman Empire (modern-day Egypt)
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- Early 3rd century AD
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- Unknown
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- Deipnosophistae
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Works in European collections
19 objects attributed to Athenaeus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Athenaiou Deipnosophistou ten polumathestaten pragmateian nyn exesti soi philologoi mikrou ... es gnosis elthein
Les quinze livres des deipnosophistes d'Athenee (etc.)
Athēnaiu Deipnosophistu tēn polymathestatēn pragmateian nyn exesti soi philologe mikru priamenō pollōn te kai megalōn kai axiomnēmoneutōn kai thaumastōn kai poikilōn kai daidalōn kai glaphyrōn kai hōn isōs proteron uk ēdeis, es gnōsin elthein. kai holōs tōn tēs hellēnikēs paideias apothetōn kai dyseuretōn keimēliōn enkratei genesthai ...
Athenaei NAthatitis... Deipnosophistarum libri quindecim...
Banquet des savans
Banquet des savans
Athenai ou deipnosophiston Biblia Pentekaideka
Athenaei Dipnosophistarum siue coenae sapientum libri XV
Athenaei Dipnosophistarum siue coenae sapientum libri XV
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- The ''Deipnosophistae''
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Athenaeus of Naucratis (; or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus.
Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the thratta, a type of fish mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets, and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost. Of his works, only the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.