Athenaeus
(flourished c. 200 B.C.) Egypt
Greek author
Born at Naucratis, a Greek city in Egypt, rivaling Plutarch as a contribution to gay history, with a special emphasis on literature, his Deipnosophistae (Banquet of the Sophists) is a compendium of after-dinner stories and memorabilia. He is one of a significant few about whom something is known.
His Book XIII of the Deipnosophistae, is an enormous compilation of erudition by Athenaeus, who lived wrote at Naucratis. Casual, sprawling, and chaotic, this marathon conversation makes reference to a wealth of stories and preserves much information about gay literary themes that would otherwise have been lost.
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