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Deipnosophistae

Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and Jacques Daléchamps' Latin translation

The Deipnosophistae (Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. 'The Dinner Sophists', where sophists may be translated more loosely as 'sages, philosophers, experts') is a work written c. 200 AD in Ancient Greek by Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets held by the protagonist Publius Livius Larensis for an assembly of grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians, and hangers-on.


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Müdriklər bayramı AZ Гощавка на софисти Bulgarian Deipnosophistai BR El sopar dels erudits Catalan Δειπνοσοφισταί Greek Banquete de los eruditos Spanish Deipnosophistai EU Deipnosofistai Finnish Les Deipnosophistes French Deipnosofisti Italian

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