Athenaeus

Athenaeus ( Ancient Greek Ἀθήναιος Nαυκράτιος Athenaeus Naukrátios, Latin Athenaeus Naucratita, rarely Naucratitus; 2./Anfang end of the 3rd century ) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian from Naucratis in Egypt. Athenaeus lived at first in Alexandria and later in the capital Rome.

Work

His main work, the Deipnosophistai (Greek Δειπνοσοφισταί; German Banquet of scholars) in originally 30 books that are truncated in the tradition of 15, of which the first three are preserved only in excerpts. After the literary model of Plato's Symposium Athenaeus tells his friend Timocrates about attending a banquet. The hosts treat Publius Larensis Livy and his total of 29 guests in the form of table discussions, the ancient Greek customs, daily life, contemporary art and science. This nearly 800 ancient authors and more than 10,000 lines of text are cited. According to the philologist Egidius Schmalzriedt the work to the content belongs to the " abstruse Estonians and Ungenießbarsten that was ever written, with no sense of composition and vivid display ." On the other hand, replaces the collection in part to the loss of numerous works of writers of antiquity and is a very valuable insight into the life at that time habits.

The tradition is based primarily on a 1423 Opel brought from Constantinople to Italy Codex. 1514 Aldus Manutius appeared in a published by Marcus Musurus edition in print, the 2012 realized a price of 45,000 Swiss francs.

The standard edition of the text is edited by Georg Kaibel. In the citation usually going back to the issue of Isaac Casaubon page count is used, which is complemented by a lower-case letters hopcount use. The full text is preserved in a single manuscript (A), the extracts are preserved in two manuscripts (C and E).

Expenditure

• Georg Kaibel (ed.): Athenaei Naucratitae Dipnosophistarum libri 15 3 vols Teubner, Leipzig 1887-1890, Teubner, Stuttgart, 1985-1992, Vol 1 (Book IV), Vol 2 (Book VI -X), Vol 3 (Book XI -XV and appendices).
• Ursula and Kurt Treu ( selection and translator's ): The Gelehrtenmahl. 2nd edition, Dieterich, Leipzig, 1987, ISBN 3-7350-0029-0
• Claus Friedrich (introduction and translation ): Athenaeus. The Gelehrtenmahl. Posted by Thomas Nothers. Edited by Peter Wirth. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-7772-9813-9.
• Charles Burton Gulick: The Deipnosophists. 7 vols Loeb Classical Library. Heinemann, London 1927-1941 (Greek text and English translation).
• Charles Duke Yonge (Translator): The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the learned, of Athenaeus. With an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index. Bohn 3 vols, London 1854, Vol 1 (Book I-VI), Vol 2 (Book VII- XI), Vol 3 (Book XII- XV) (English translation without pagination ).