ATHENAEUS and HIS WORLD: Reading Greek Culture in the Roman Empire.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Almost all classicists and ancient historians make use of Athenaeus. The text of his Philosophers at Supper (Deipnosophistae) is the Quarry on which we depend for our knowledge of much ancient literature; it is also the source of much of the data used by modern historians of the classical and hellenistic worlds. His work is a major example of the literature of the Second Sophistic, revelling in the Greek past in the context of the Roman imperial present. Yet, while the significance of Athenaeus is widely recognised, his work has seldom been considered for its own sake. -- This book is the first sustained attempt to understand and explore Athenaeus' work as a whole and in its own right. It presents 41 chapters, written by an international team of literary specialists and historians, each tackling a significant feature of the work. After a short Foreword from Glen Bowersock, the editors offer two introductory essays, David Braund considering the Roman patronage under which Athenaeus wrote and |ohn Wilkins the much-maligned structure of the work. -- Athenaeus and His World sets the study of Athenaeus on a new footing by making sense of his massive and polyphonous text. He emerges both as a significant author and word-smith in his own right, and also as a historical figure typical of his age, proud of his home town (Greek Naucratis in Egypt) and the illustrious heritage of the past, yet at home also in the present within the Roman empire. - General Introduction -- Introductory remarks -- Learning, Luxury and Empire: Athenaeus� Roman Patron David Braund, University of Exeter -- Dialogue and Comedy: The Structure of the Deipnosophistae -- John Wilkins, University of Exeter -- Text, Transmission and Translation -- Introductory remarks -- Athenaeus and the Epitome: Texts, Manuscripts and Early Editions -- Geoffrey Arnott, University of Leeds -- Foreword -- Glen Bower sock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton -- A Dainty Dish to Set Before a King: Natale de� Conti�s Translation of Athenaeus� Deipnosophistae -- Rosemary Bancroft-Marcus, Rixensart, Belgium -- Section III -- Athenaeus the Reader and His World -- Introductory remarks -- Athenaeus� in His Egyptian Context -- Dorothy Thompson, Girton College, Cambridge -- Athenaeus the Librarian -- Christian Jacob, Centre Louis Gernet, Paris -- The Walking Library: The Performance of Cultural Memories -- Yun Lee Too, University of Columbia, New York -- Athenaeus� Knowledge of Early Greek Elegiac and lambic Poetry -- Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College, Oxford -- Athenaeus, Lucian and Fifth-Century Comedy -- Keith Sidwell, University of Cork -- Harpocration and Athenaeus: Historiographical Relationships -- Giuseppe Zecchini, Catholic University, Milan -- Athenaeus and Polybius -- Frank Walbank, Peterhouse, Cambridge -- Fun with Fragments: Athenaeus and the Historians -- Christopher Pelling, University College, Oxford -- The Recalcitrant Mass: Athenaeus and Pausanias -- Karim Arafat, King's College, London -- Athenaeus� Use of Public Documents -- John Davies, University of Liverpool. -- Picturing the Past: Uses of Ekphrasis in the Deipnosophistae and Other Works of the Second Sophistic -- Ruth Webb, University of Princeton -- The Female-Kings: Some Aspects of the Representation of Eastern Kings in the Deipnosophistae -- Maria Gam bato, University of Padua -- Smyrna: Sophists between Greece and Rome -- Keith Hopwood, St David's University College, Lampeter -- Structural Overviews -- Introductory remarks -- Are the Fifteen Books of the Deipnosophistae an Excerpt? -- Lucia Rodriguez-Noriega Guillen, University of Oviedo -- The koyoSetitvov: Athenaeus between Banquet and Anti-Banquet Luciana Romeri, University of Campinas, Sao Paulo -- Dance and Desserts: An Analysis of Book Fourteen Paola Ceccarelli, University of L'Aquila -- Pleasure and Pedantry in Athenaeus James Davidson, University of Warwick -- The Politics and Poetics of Parasitism: Athenaeus on Parasites and Flatterers -- Tim Whitmarsh, St John�s College, Cambridge -- The Banquet of Belles-Lettres: Athenaeus and the Comic Symposium -- Graham Anderson, University of Kent -- Between Ichthyophagists and Syrians: Features of Fish-eating in Athenaeus� Deipnosophistae Books Seven and Eight -- Antonia Marchiori, University of Padua -- Key Authors -- Introductory Remarks -- Do Heroes Eat Fish? Athenaeus on the Homeric Lifestyle Malcolm Heath, University of Leeds -- Plato in the Deipnosophistae Michael Trapp, King�s College, London -- Athenaeus, Crates and Attic Glosses: A Problem of Attribution Maria Broggiato, University College, London -- Lynceus and the Anecdotists Andrew Dalby, St Coutant, France -- Section VI -- Sympotica -- Introductory Remarks -- Laughter as Dessert: On Athenaeus� Book Fourteen, 613-616 Silvia Milanezi, University of Tours -- You Are What You Eat: Diet and Philosophical diaita in Athenaeus� -- Deipnosophistae Richard Stoneman, University of Exeter -- Stratonicus, The Witty Harpist Dwora Gilula, Hebrew University, Jerusalem -- Athenaeus on Music Andrew Barker, University of Birmingham -- Aristoxenus in Athenaeus Elisabetta Villari, University of Genoa -- Athenaeus on Greek Wine -- Roger Brock, University of Leeds and Hanneke Wirtjes, Oxford -- Athenaeus and the Cult of Dionysus Orthos Konstantinos Niafas, Thessaloniki, Greece -- The Physicians at the Feast: The Place of Medical Knowledge at Athenaeus� Dinner-Table -- Rebecca Flemming, King�s College, London -- Hicesius� Fish and Chips: A Plea for an Edition of the Fragments and -- Testimonies of the kepi tAr|<7 Danielle Gourevitch, Sorbonne, University of Paris -- Athenaeus, Medicine and Demography -- Jean-Nicolas Corvisier, University of Arras -- Athenaeus the Ur-Pornographer -- Madeleine Henry, University of Iowa -- The Other Athenaeus -- Introductory Remarks -- Athenaeus, On the Kings of Syria David Braund, University of Exeter -- Athenaeus and the Fishes of Archippus -- John Wilkins, University of Exeter. 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