# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/athenaeus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:56:37.698Z

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description: "He survives as the author of a fifteen-volume work about a dinner party — the Deipnosophistae — in which learned guests debate food, literature, and everything touched by Greek culture. Two other books, a fish treatise and a history of Syrian kings, are gone."
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deathDate: "223"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Athenaeus of Naucratis was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian working around the turn of the third century AD. The Suda places him in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, but his scorn for Commodus — who died in 192 — suggests he outlived that emperor. He wrote a treatise on the thratta, a fish cited by comic poets, and a history of the Syrian kings; both are lost. What remains is the Deipnosophistae, a fifteen-volume work that records the wide-ranging conversation of banqueters, preserving fragments of hundreds of earlier texts that would otherwise be unknown.