The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work (Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek[1] author Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets held by the protagonist Publius Livius Larensis for an assembly of grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians, and hangers-on.
- ^ Smith, William, "Adrantus", A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 20, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139794602.002, ISBN 978-1-139-79460-2, retrieved 2021-06-27