Athenaeus

[ath-uh-nee-uhs, -ney-]

noun

1. late 2nd century a.d., Greek philosopher and rhetorician at Naucratis in Egypt.

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, writing in the late second or early third century ce, preserved a contemporary description of the coronation festivities for Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 285.

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There’s a story that comes from the second- and third-century AD author Athenaeus, born in Naukratis, which chimes uncannily accurately with the journey of that votive figure.

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But this identification is far from certain, as a Ctesibius mechanicus is mentioned by Athenaeus as having lived under Ptolemy II.

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Of the two histories we possess abridgments by Photius, and fragments are preserved in Athenaeus, Plutarch and especially Diodorus Siculus, whose second book is mainly from Ctesias.

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Under this head may be mentioned such works as the lexicons of Julius Pollux, Harpocration and Hesychius, Hephaestion’s treatise on metre, and Herodian’s system of accentuation; the commentaries of Galen on Plato and on Hippocrates; the learned miscellanies of Athenaeus, Aelian and Stobaeus; and the Stratagems of Polyaenus.

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