The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume III : Books 6–7

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Learned Banqueters, Volume III : Books 6–7Scholars at dinner. In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs; the music and entertainments that ornamented

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