Table of Contents
- Foreword (Glen Bowersock, Princeton)
- Section I: General Introduction
- Introductory remarks
- 1. David Braund (Exeter): Learning, luxury and empire:
Athenaeus’ Roman patron
- 2. John Wilkins (Exeter): Dialogue and Comedy: the structure of
the Deipnosophistae
- Section II: Text, Transmission and Translation
- Introductory remarks
- 3. Geoffrey Arnott (Leeds): Athenaeus and the Epitome: texts,
manuscripts and early editions
- 4. Rosemary Bancroft-Marcus (Oxford): A dainty dish to set
before a king: Natale Conti and his translation of Athenaeus’
Deipnosophistae
- Section III: Athenaeus the Reader and his World
- Introductory remarks
- 5. Dorothy Thompson (Cambridge): Athenaeus’ Egyptian
background
- 6. Christian Jacob (Paris): Athenaeus the Librarian
- 7. Yun Lee Too (Columbia): The Walking Library of Athenaeus:
The Performance of Cultural Memories
- 8. Ewen Bowie (Oxford): Athenaeus’ knowledge of early Greek
elegiac and iambic poetry
- 9. Keith Sidwell (Cork): Athenaeus, Lucian and fifth-century
comedy
- 10. Giuseppe Zecchini (Milan): Athenaeus and Harpocration:
historiographical relationships
- 11 Frank Walbank (Cambridge): Athenaeus and Polybius
- 12 Christopher Pelling (Oxford): Fun with fragments: Athenaeus
and the historians
- 13 Karim Arafat (London): The recalcitrant mass: Athenaeus and
Pausanias
- 14 John Davies (Liverpool): Athenaeus’ use of public
documents
- 15 Ruth Webb (Princeton): Picturing the past: uses of ekphrasis
in the Deipnosophistae and other works of the Second Sophistic
- 16 Maria Gambato (Padua): The female king: some aspects of
representation of eastern kings in the Deipnosophistae
- 17 Keith Hopwood (Lampeter): Cultural politics in Smyrna, city
of the sophists
- Section IV: Structural Overviews
- Introductory remarks
- 18 Lucia Rodriguez-Noriega Guillén (Oviedo): Are the 15 books
of the Deipnosophistae an excerpt?
- 19 Luciana Romeri (Paris): The Logodeipnon: Athenaeus between
banquet and anti-banquet
- 20 Paola Ceccarelli (L’Aquila): Athenaeus and dance
- 21 James Davidson (London): Pleasure and Pedantry in
Athenaeus
- 22 Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge): The politics and poetics of
parasitism: Athenaeus on parasites and flatterers
- 23 Graham Anderson (Kent): The banquet of belles-lettres:
Athenaeus and the comic symposium
- 24 Antonia Marchiori (Padua): Between Ichthyophagists and
Syrians: features of fish-eating in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
Books Seven and Eight
- Section V: Key Authors
- Introductory Remarks
- 25 Malcolm Heath (Leeds): Do heroes eat fish? Athenaeus on the
Homeric lifestyle
- 26 Michael Trapp (London): Plato in the Deipnosophistae
- 27 Maria Broggiato (London): Athenaeus, Crates and Attic
glosses; a problem of attribution
- 28 Andrew Dalby (Cambridge): The anecdotists (with the
fragments of Lynceus)
- Section VI: Sympotica
- Introductory remarks
- 29 Silvia Milanezi (Grenoble): Laughter as dessert: on
Athenaeus’ Book Fourteen, 613-616
- 30 Richard Stoneman (London/Exeter): You are what you eat: diet
and philosophical diaita in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae
- 31 Dwora Gilula (Jerusalem): Stratonicus, the witty
harpist
- 32 Andrew Barker (Birmingham): Athenaeus on music
- 33 Elizabetta Villari (Genoa): Aristoxenus in Athenaeus
- 34 Roger Brock (Leeds) and Hanneke Wirtjes (Oxford): Athenaeus
on Greek wine
- 35 Konstantinos Niafas (Brussels/Exeter): Athenaeus and the
cult of Dionysos Orthos; Deipn. 2. 38
- 36 Rebecca Flemming (London): Physicians at the feast: the
place of medical knowledge at Athenaeus’ dining-table
- 37 Danielle Gourevitch (Paris): Doctors at supper: Hicesius’
fish and chips
- 38 Jean-Nicolas Corvisier (Arras): Athenaeus, medicine and
demography
- 39 Madeleine Henry (Iowa): Athenaeus, the Ur-Pornographer
- Section VII: The other Athenaeus
- Introductory remarks
- 40 David Braund (Exeter): Athenaeus, On the Kings of Syria
- 41 John Wilkins (Exeter): Athenaeus and the Fishes of
Archippus
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of Subjects
Promotional Information
First book on Athenaeus ever to be written in English
International team of historians and literary specialists
Foreword by Glen Bowersock, Professor of Ancient History, Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton
About the Author
David Braund is Professor of Ancient History, and head of the
Classics and Ancient History department at the University of
Exeter. His particular specialism lies in the Black Sea region,
especially Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and he speaks Russian and
Georgian fluently. His books include The Administration of the
Roman Empire (Exeter, 1988); Georgia in Antiquity: A History of
Transcaucasian Georgia, 550 BC-AD 562 (Oxford, 1994); Ruling Roman
Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Caesar to
Agricola (Routledge, 1996). John Wilkins is Professor at the
University of Exeter. He is a specialist in the history of food in
Greco-Roman culture, with current interests in literature
(especially comic drama) and medicine (especially nutrition). His
books include Food in Antiquity: Studies in Ancient Society and
Culture (Exeter, 1996).
Reviews
...those interested in particular themes in the Deipnosophistae
will therefore want to browse the contents of several sections.
Fortunately this is made easy by the editors' introductory remarks
to each section, which summarise each chapter's main arguments as
well as defining its place within the section and in Athenian
scholarship. These remarks provide valuable orientation in a
collection of this scope. From the team that brought you Food in
Antiquity, and in matching format, Athenaeus has everything: lots
of food, buckets of otherwise unknown texts, material on dining
customs in late antiquity, and a considerable body of material on
sex ... This volume should go some way towards a broader
understanding. Ce magnifique ouvrage ... Mais les amateurs de
musique, tout comme les lecteurs d'Homere et de Platon, auront
egalement beaucoup a glaner dans cet ouvrage qui, sans nul doute,
marque une etape nouvelle et incontournable dans le renouveau des
etudes sur Athenee. Although Athenaeus' magnum opus is so crucial a
text for our knowledge of classical literature and society, his own
work has received astonishingly little interest among scholars. In
response to this palpable oversight, the editors some years ago
organised an international conference to celebrate and explore
Athenaeus and his legacy. This weighty volume includes most of the
papers from that conference ... Each contributor is an expert in
his specialist field and so offers a uniquely scholarly insight
into Athenaeus, his sources and reliability ... Each contribution
is backed up by a wealth of scholarly notes and a helpful general
bibliography ... There is something for everyone here, whether
scholar or just interested Hellenist. It might even make you turn
to Athenaeus himself and start reading him. As the first major book
on the Deipnosophistae, Athenaeus and His World provides a
pleasingly varied introduction to an under-explored monument.
