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- The opposite of this dullard is the deipnosophist, an adept dinner conversationalist.
- Pamphilus was one of the chief authorities used by Athenaeus in the " Deipnosophists ".
- Athenaeus's book " The Deipnosophists " records a number of remarks attributed to Tha飐.
- Even in antiquity there were those who held the story to be mere fiction ( " The Deipnosophists,"
- Athenaeus quotes this stanza in his " Deipnosophists " and is adamant that it is not the work of Sappho.
- A deipnosophist is one skilled in the art of dinner-table conversation, while a winebibber is just what it suggests _ someone who drinks a lot of alcohol.
- In the 17th and 18th centuries the statue was identified as Venus and associated with a temple to Aphrodite Kallipygos at Syracuse, discussed by Athenaeus in his " Deipnosophists ".
- A special mention of Persian carpets is also made by Athenaeus of Naucratis in his " Deipnosophists ", as he describes a " delightfully embroidered " Persian carpet having some " preposterous shapes of griffins ".
- "Athenaeus " ( Deipnosophists XII 516c-d ) quotes a brief recipe for the meaty version of " kandaulos " from Hegesippus of Tarentum, an author of Greek works on cookery and on cake-making of the 4th century BC:
- Plato's " Symposium " is the literary ancestor of these works, by way of the " Deipnosophists " of Athenaeus, in which ( as in much of Peacock ) the conversation relates less to exalted philosophical themes than to the points of a good fish dinner.
- "' Myma "'( ???? or ????, ?? ) was an ancient Greek meat dish that incorporated animal Deipnosophists ( 662d, or XIV, 82 ), the 2nd century Greek rhetorician and grammarian Athenaeus quotes recipes from Artemidorus and Epaenetus, authors of cookery books who lived in the Hellenistic period:
- Examples include " meteorosophist ", which roughly translates to " expert in celestial phenomena "; " gymnosophist " ( or " naked sophist, " a word used to refer to a sect of Indian philosophers, the Gymnosophists ), " deipnosophist " or " dinner sophist " ( as in the title of Athenaeus's Deipnosophistae ), and " iatrosophist ", a type of physician in the later Roman period.