Athenaeus and his world : reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire
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Athenaeus and his world : reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire
University of Exeter Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 594-610) and indexes
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Description
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.
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 Guillen (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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