Athenaeus

Athenaeus of Naucratis
BornLate 2nd century AD
Naucratis, Roman Empire (modern-day Egypt)
DiedEarly 3rd century AD
Unknown
Occupation
Notable worksDeipnosophistae

Athenaeus of Naucratis (/ˌæθəˈnəs/, 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.[1]

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.

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Adrantus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 20, archived from the original on 2005-12-18, retrieved 2016-05-10{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)