The deipnosophists, volume v, books 1112 loeb classical library. Help link to the next level up up link to my homepage home. A digital edition of the deipnosophists of athenaeus of naucratis. See key to translations for an explanation of the format. And besides this, he opened his house to everyone, and made a daily. And most of them made their houses more beautiful than the temples of the gods. The sybarites, phylarchus says, after drifting into luxury passed a law that. With an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into english verse by various authors, and a general index see other formats. A translation of excerpts from athenaeus deipnosophists, book 12, pages. Athenaeus, the deipnosophists, the deipnosophists, or the. Books xiixiii holds a wealth of information for studies of homosexuality in.
Digital athenaeus a digital edition of the deipnosophists of. Would that a little part survived of the writers from whom athenaeus quotes. The national endowment for the humanities provided support for entering this text. There was a house built capable of containing a hundred couches. The project gutenberg ebook of the deipnosophists or. The deipnosophistae is an early 3rdcentury ad greek work by the grecoegyptian author. It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of plato, although each conversation is so long that, realistically, it would occupy several days. A translation of excerpts from athenaeus deipnosophists, book 12, pages 510528. After the reference to the book number, this system. The deipnosophistae professes to be an account, given by athenaeus to his friend timocrates, of a series of banquets held at the house. Athenaeus was a native of naucratis, a greek city in egypt, and he wrote the deipnosophists in the early part of the 3rd century a.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy. The deipnosophistae of athenaeus of naucratis is a literary symposium, which. The deipnosophists is a long work of literary and antiquarian research by the hellenistic. The deipnosophistae professes to be an account, given by athenaeus to his friend timocrates, of a series of banquets held at the house of larensius, a scholar and wealthy patron of the arts. In this work laurentius is introduced, a roman, a man of distinguished fortune, giving a banquet in his own house to men of the highest eminence for every kind of learning and accomplishment. In it he pretends to tell a friend about a banquet at a scholars house whither. The greek text of the deipnosophists is based on the teubner edition of georg. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapters. The casaubonkaibel reference converter is a tool for finding concordances between the numerations used in the two editions of the 15 books of the deipnosophists of athenaeus of naucratis by isaac casaubon 1597 and georg kaibel 18871890 casaubon reference system.
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