Ateneo Ateneo or Naucratis (around 200 AD.) Is a writer of ancient Greece, born and raised in the ancient Egyptian city of Naucratis giving him the nickname. He is remembered for the retrospective collection titled Deipnosofistas fifteen books (The Feast of the scholars), a sum of dialogues on a variety of topics. It is a valuable source of information about the ancient world, it includes many details about daily life, the conception of life and ideas, as well as numerous passages now lost works. Probably the work was finished in the years immediately following the death of the Roman Emperor Commodus in 192 The work belongs to the genre variety polihistórica banquet, formerly used by Plato in Symposium, by Aristoxenus and Didymus.
The Banquet of the learned, in its current version has 15 books, though perhaps originally an epitome There were 30 covering the gaps. At the banquet, which lasted for several days, philosophy, literature, law, medicine and others, are represented by a large number of guests, who in some cases are historical figures (the most famous is Galen). In contrast, Ateneo presents a Cynic philosopher. The host called Larense, perhaps the author's employer, is attested epigraphically.
The simposíaco framework, though not humorless at times, has been subordinated to the interest of collections containing extracts. These extracts are related to all the issues and arguments, and he lived; come from a number of authors, especially new media Comedy and Comedy, whose works have been lost. They value from the point of view of literature. The arrangement of these extracts sometimes suggested that the author used lexical (Didymus, Panfilo) or didaskalíai (lists of dramatic productions), as Kōmōdoumenoi lists (characters mocked in sitcoms). But Ateneo collected many texts besides the great writers. Quote about 1,250 authors, gives the title of over 1,000 plays and over 10 000 copies verses.