The web of Athenaeus

On the art of planting cabbage

Banquet, symposium, library

Athenaeus is the father of this book

Banquet and sumposion

An art of conviviality: Plutarch and Athenaeus

Larensius' circle

Writing the Symposium

Forms of collection

Accumulation and structure

Serving the dishes, quoting the texts: the unfolding of the banquet

How to speak at table?

Libraries and bibliophiles

Scholars' practices

Words and things

The deipnosophists as a text: genesis, uses

The web of Athenaeus: the art of weaving links

The epitome of the world

When a culture reflects on itself.