Athenaeus

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 (1612).
English: The deipnosophists, or Banquet of the learned, I–VI, VII–XI and XII–XV (Charles Yonge, 1854).
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).

Created on 29 June 2026.