The web of Athenaeus/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Washington:
Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University,
2013
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| Series: | Hellenic studies
61 |
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Table of Contents:
- On the art of planting cabbage
- Banquet, symposium, library
- Athenaeus is the father of this book
- Banquet and symposion
- An art of conviviality: Plutarch and Athenaeus
- Larensius' circle
- Writing the Symposium
- Forms of collection
- Accumulation and structure
- Serving the dishes, quoting the texts: the unfolding of the banquet
- How to speak at table?
- Libraries and bibliophiles
- Scholars' practices
- Words and things
- The deipnosophists as a text: genesis, uses
- The web of Athenaeus: the art of weaving links
- The epitome of the world
- When a culture reflects on itself.