The Learned Banqueters Vol. VIII

This volume constitutes the eighth and final installment of the Loeb Classical Library edition of *The Learned Banqueters* (*Deipnosophistae*) by Athenaeus of Naucratis, a Greek author writing in the late second and early third centuries CE. Rather than a practical cookbook, it is a scholarly reference work containing Book 15 of the original text alongside comprehensive indexes for the full series, supporting academic study of the work as a whole. The *Deipnosophistae* is significant as one of antiquity's richest surviving sources on ancient Greek and Roman food, dining customs, culinary terminology, and symposium culture, presented in the form of a literary dialogue among learned dinner guests. This edition, with facing Greek text and English translation, is aimed at classicists, historians, and serious scholars of food history rather than practicing cooks.