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Athenaeus logo #21000[musician] Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus (Ἀθήναιος) was an ancient Greek (Athenian) composer and musician who flourished around 138–28 BC, when he composed the First Delphic Hymn. Although it was long thought that the composer of the First Hymn was merely `an Athenian`, careful reading of the inscription shows that it cannot be the...
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Athenaeus

Athenaeus logo #21003Greek grammarian and author of Deipnosophistai (`The Gastronomers`), a work in the form of an aristocratic symposium, in which a number of learned ... [1 related articles]
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Athenaeus

Athenaeus logo #21217Athenaeus was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian. He lived at the end of the second and beginning of the third century after Christ. He was the author of an encyclopaedic work, in the form of conversation, called the Feast of the Learned (Deipnosophistae), which is a rich but ill-arranged treasure of historical, antiquarian, philosophical, grammati...
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Athenaeus

Athenaeus logo #21199late 2nd century a.d., Greek philosopher and rhetorician at Naucratis in Egypt.
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