Late 2nd/early 3rd century Greek rhetorician and grammarian
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.
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.
Sourced, dated quotes from Athenaeus
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.
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