Athenaeus And His World

Reading Greek Culture in the Roman Empire

Edited by David Braund and John Wilkins

Athenaeus And His World
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Edited by David Braund and John Wilkins

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648 pages | 9-2/5 x 8-3/5 | © 2000
Cloth $125.00 ISBN: 9780859896610 Published January 2000 For sale in North and South America only
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.
The Anglo-Hellenic Review

“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…” –The Anglo-Hellenic Review, No. 25, Spring 2002

Times Literary Supplement

“As the first major book on the Deipnosophistae, Athenaeus and His World provides a pleasingly varied introduction to an under-explored monument.” –Times Literary Supplement, March 2002

Contents
Foreword by 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
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