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THE WEB OF ATHENAEUS
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| By: |
Christian Jacob, Dr. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Editor), Dr. Arietta Papaconstantinou (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£16.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674073282 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674073289 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES |
| Pub. date: |
27 May, 2013 |
| Series: |
Hellenic Studies Series 61 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
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 lost classical poets. Connecting the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans, Jacob helps the reader navigate the many intersecting paths in this enormous work. |
| Synopsis: |
In The Web of Athenaeus, Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 ce). Jacob provides the reader with a map and a compass to navigate the unfathomable number of intersecting paths in this enormous work: the books, the quotations, the diners, the dishes served, and--above all--the wordplay, all within the simulacrum of an ancient Greek library. A text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets, the Sophists at Dinner has now received a full literary re-imagining by Jacob, who connects the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans. The Web of Athenaeus simultaneously offers a literary history of the rarest and finest of Greek culture along with a creative anthropology of a Roman imperial world obsessed with the Greek past. |
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1 line illustration |
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US |
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Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies |
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