Athenaeus
c. 170 CE – 223 CE · aged 53
Late 2nd/early 3rd century Greek rhetorician and grammarian
- Born
- 170 CE · Naucratis
- Died
- 223 CE
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- 170 CEBornBorn in Naucratis
- c. 223 CEDiedDied
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Athenaeus of Naucratis (Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus.
Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the thratta, a type of fish mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets, and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost. Of his works, only the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.
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