ATHENAEUS of Naucratis
Athênaios o Naukratitês (Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης).
Born in the late 2nd century CE in Naucratis, Egypt.
Died in the early 3rd century CE.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
WORKS
The learned banqueters.
(Δειπνοσοφισταί / Deipnosophistai / Latin: Deipnosophistae).
Greek:
Aldo Manuzio (editio princeps, 1514);
— Jakob Bedrot and Christian Herlin (1535);
— Isaac Casaubon (1597; with Daléchamps’s Latin version;
see also 1598,
1612 and
1657;
commentary in 1600,
1621,
1664,
1796, I–V,
1837, VI–X and
XI–XV, and
1843, I–V,
VI–X and
XI–XV);
— Johann Schweighäuser, I–III,
IV–VI,
VII–IX,
X–XII and
XIII–XV, with
commentary on I–II,
III–IV,
V–VI,
VII–VIII,
IX–X,
XI–XII,
XIII–XIV,
XV and
indices (1801–1807);
— Friedrich Jacobs (1809; commentary in Latin);
— Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, I–VI,
VII–XII and
XIII–XV (1827;
see also 1834, I–V,
VI–IX,
X–XIII and
XIV–XV, and
1868, I–V,
VI–IX,
X–XIII and
XIV–XV);
— Gottfried Heinrich Schäfer, I–V (1796),
VI–XII and
XIII–XV (1838);
— August Meineke, I–VI,
VII–XII,
XIII–XV (1858–1859) and
commentary (1867);
— Georg Kaibel, I–V,
VI–X and
XI–XV (1887–1890;
see also 1965‐1966, I–V,
VI–X and
XI–XV).
Latin:
Deipnosophistae (Natale Conti, 1556, Paris;
see also 1556, Lyon, and
1572, Venice);
— Deipnosophistae (Jacques Daléchamps, 1583).
English:
The deipnosophists, or Banquet of the learned, I–VI,
VII–XI and
XII–XV (Charles Yonge, 1854);
— The deipnosophists (Charles Gulick, 1927‐1941; with Greek; seven volumes);
— The learned banqueters (S. Douglas Olson, 2007‐2012; with Greek; eight volumes).
French:
Les deipnosophistes (Michel de Marolles, 1680);
— Banquet des savants, I–III,
IV–VI,
VII–IX,
X–XII and
XIII–XV (Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune, 1789–1791);
— Morceaux extraits du Banquet des savants (Adrien Hubert, 1828; excerpts, with Greek);
— Le chapitre XIII d’Athénée (Thierry Sandre, 1924; book XIII);
— Les deipnosophistes, I–II (Alexandre-Marie Desrousseaux and Charles Astruc, 1956);
— Mots de poissons : Le banquet des sophistes, livres 6 et 7 (Benoît Louyest, 2009; books VI–VII);
— Les deipnosophistes, XII (Anne-Marie Ozanam, 2025).
On the kings of Syria (lost).
Treatise about the Seleucids.
About the thratta (lost).
Commentary on a passage from the lost play The fishes by Archippus.
Created on 29 June 2026. Updated on 5 July 2026.
