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Athenaeus

[image ALT: A detail of an ancient Roman mosaic depicting a large fish swimming toward the sea floor; other smaller fish follow. The mosaic is at Ampurias (Spain).]

Detail of a Roman mosaic in Emporiae. Remember: whatever else he may say, Athenaeus never strays too far from fish.

Photo © Marco Prins 2003, by kind permission.
For further details about the town, now Ampurias in Spain, see the Emporiae page at Livius.

The Author

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The Text of Athenaeus on LacusCurtius

As usual, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

This transcription is being minutely proofread. In the table of contents below, the sections are therefore shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree; parts not proofread are shown on red backgrounds As elsewhere on this site, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. Should you spot an error, however . . . please do report it.

Further details on the technical aspects of the site layout follow the Table of Contents.

Currently (Jun 09), the only Greek text of Athenaeus online that I know of is offsite at the Université catholique de Louvain. zzz

The Deipnosophistae (Scholars at the Dinner Table might work as a translation) is so very discursive, or outright rambling, that the table of contents below makes no attempt at indicating the subject of the various sections. zzz

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Edition Used, Copyright

Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes, Greek texts and facing English translation: Harvard University Press, 1927 thru 1941; translation by Charles Burton Gulick.

Each volume was published in a different year, but each is in the public domain pursuant to the 1978 revision of the U. S. Copyright Code, since the copyright was not renewed at the appropriate time, which would have been in 1954 and 1955 for Vol. I, in 1955 and 1956 for Vol. II, in 1956 and 1957 for Vol. III, in 1957 and 1958 for Vol. IV, in 1960 and 1961 for Vol. V, in 1964 and 1965 for Vol. VI, and in 1968 and 1969 for Vol. VII. (Details here on the copyright law involved.)

Section Numbering, Local Links

The numbers in the left margin are the traditional page numbers from an early zzz edition; they mark local links, according to a consistent scheme; you can therefore link to any passage directly.

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