The Web of Athenaeus PDF book is popular book written by Christian Jacob. The book was released by Harvard University Press on 2013 with total hardcover pages 0. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Web of Athenaeus by Christian Jacob in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Christian Jacob presents a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 ce), a text long mined merely for its testimonies to l
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to
Witty nicknames, crude jokes, public nudity and lavish monuments, all of these things distinguished Greek courtesans from respectable citizen women in ancient G
What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on t
