The Learned Banqueters

ISBN-13: 9780674996731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 416 str.

Athenaeus

Opis

Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. This work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) includes information about different cuisines and foodstuffs, the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality.