| The Web of Athenaeus Contributor(s): Jacob, Christian (Author), Papaconstantinou, Arietta (Translator), Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0674073282 ISBN-13: 9780674073289 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| LCCN: 2013009762 |
| Series: Hellenic Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6" W x 9" (0.46 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jacob, Christian: - Christian Jacob is a Faculty Member, Anthropologie et histoire des mondes antiques, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald: - Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Dumbarton Oaks Teaching Fellow in Postclassical and Byzantine Greek in the Classics Department at Georgetown University.Papaconstantinou, Arietta: - Arietta Papaconstantinou is a Reader in Ancient History in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. |