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Athenaeus And His World: Reading Greek Culture in the Roman...

Athenaeus And His World: Reading Greek Culture in the Roman Empire

David Braund, Wilkins, John, Bowersock, Glen
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An international team of literary specialists explore Athenaeus’ work as a whole and in its own right.
 
Almost all classicists and ancient historians make use of Athenaeus; Athenaeus and his World is the first sustained attempt to understand and explore his work as a whole, and in its own right. The work emerges as no mere compendium of earlier texts, but as a vibrant work of complex structure and substantial creativity. The book makes sense of the massive and polyphonous Deipnosophistae, the quarry upon which classicists and ancient historians depend for their knowledge of much ancient literature, particularly Comedy, and also the source of much of the data used by modern historians for the social history of the classical and hellenistic worlds.
 
The 41 chapters, written by an international team of literary specialists and historians, each tackle a significant feature, and the book is divided into seven sections, each prefaced by introductory remarks from the editors.
Year:
2000
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
648
ISBN 10:
0859896617
ISBN 13:
9780859896610
File:
PDF, 27.98 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2000
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