The Learned Banqueters Vol. IV

Volume IV of the Loeb Classical Library edition of *The Learned Banqueters* covers Books 8 through 10.420e of Athenaeus of Naucratis's late-2nd century CE work, in which a series of learned dinner guests discourse at length and quote extensively from Greek literature, including texts that no longer survive in any other form. Though not a cookbook in the conventional sense, the work is a significant primary source for the study of ancient Greek food culture, dining customs, and culinary terminology, embedded within a broader framework of literary and antiquarian scholarship. This bilingual Loeb edition presents the original Greek text alongside an English translation, making it a scholarly reference aimed at classicists, historians, and researchers with an interest in the foodways and intellectual life of the ancient Mediterranean world.