The Web of Athenaeus (Hellenic Studies Series)

Jacob, Christian/ Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (EDT)/ Papaconstantinou, Arietta (TRN)

Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies（2013/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 150 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780674073289
• DDC分類 888.01

Full Description

In The Web of Athenaeus, Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeus's Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 CE). Jacob provides the reader with a map and a compass to navigate the unfathomable number of intersecting paths in this enormous work: the books, the quotations, the diners, the dishes served, and—above all—the wordplay, all within the simulacrum of an ancient Greek library. A text long mined merely for its testimonies to lost classical poets, the Sophists at Dinner has now received a full literary re-imagining by Jacob, who connects the world of Hellenistic erudition with its legacy among Hellenized Romans. The Web of Athenaeus simultaneously offers a literary history of the rarest and finest of Greek culture along with a creative anthropology of a Roman imperial world obsessed with the Greek past.