The Learned Banqueters Vol. VI

This volume contains Books 12 through 13.594b of the Deipnosophistae (Dinner Table Philosophers) by Athenaeus of Naucratis, a Greek author writing around 200 CE. The work presents a series of learned dinner-table conversations covering topics including luxury, extravagance, and love, drawing on hundreds of earlier Greek literary sources. It is part of the Loeb Classical Library bilingual series, presenting the original Greek text alongside an English translation, and is a crucial source for ancient food culture, symposia, and lost Greek literature.