Deipnosophistae
Naucratis · 230
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Athenaeus of Naucratis
Athenaeus of Naucratis
c. 170 CE–c. 230 CE · Naucratis
Athenaeus of Naucratis was a Greek writer of around 200 CE, originally from the Egyptian city of Naucratis. His one great work, "The Learned Banqueters," is cast as a long after-dinner conversation among erudite guests who discuss food, wine, music, luxury, and countless other topics. It is a treasure-house of quotations from hundreds of earlier Greek authors, many of whom would otherwise be entirely unknown, which makes it invaluable for the study of lost classical literature.
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NaucratisNile Delta (Egypt)
What they did here
From Naucratis in the Nile Delta.
About Naucratis
The lone Greek trading-city on the Nile Delta, Greece's window into Egypt for centuries and the hometown of Athenaeus, whose sprawling 'Deipnosophistae' preserved a banquet's worth of lost Greek learning.
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Athenaeus of Naucratis’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.