So sesame seeds gives us oil, which was used in ancient Mesopotamia..And then in Greece, for cakes and desserts...A famous one called gastris described by Athenaeus by Chryssipus of Tyana..."mixing the nuts knead with boiled honey, adding plenty of pepper."
August 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
So sesame seeds gives us oil, which was used in ancient Mesopotamia..And then in Greece, for cakes and desserts...A famous one called gastris described by Athenaeus by Chryssipus of Tyana..."mixing the nuts knead with boiled honey, adding plenty of pepper."
Love that my feeds are overrun with Homer stuff. Waiting for the Athenaeus…
July 22, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Love that my feeds are overrun with Homer stuff. Waiting for the Athenaeus…
I have described myself as the author of everything I've published to this point, but I'd like to emulate Athenaeus in referring to myself as the father of my next book (he does this literally: ὁ τῆς βίβλου πατήρ).
July 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I have described myself as the author of everything I've published to this point, but I'd like to emulate Athenaeus in referring to myself as the father of my next book (he does this literally: ὁ τῆς βίβλου πατήρ).
She was known for writing riddles, although only three of her riddles survive. One was well-known in antiquity, quoted by Aristotle, as well as by Plutarch, Demetrius of Phalernum, and Athenaeus; one survives in quotation by an anonymous philosopher; and the third survives in Plutarch's Moralia.
June 25, 2026 at 12:32 PM
She was known for writing riddles, although only three of her riddles survive. One was well-known in antiquity, quoted by Aristotle, as well as by Plutarch, Demetrius of Phalernum, and Athenaeus; one survives in quotation by an anonymous philosopher; and the third survives in Plutarch's Moralia.
(512) Delphic Paean to Apollo by Athenaeus. Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Bettina Joy de Guzman. - YouTube
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Delphic Paean to Apollo by Athenaeus. Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Bettina Joy de Guzman.
YouTube video by Bettina Joy de Guzman
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June 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM
(512) Delphic Paean to Apollo by Athenaeus. Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Bettina Joy de Guzman. - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXu...
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Also according to Athenaeus of Naucratis, Hieronymus of Rhodes and Polyaenus.
June 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Also according to Athenaeus of Naucratis, Hieronymus of Rhodes and Polyaenus.
that wasn't a joke
!["Kandaulos (Ancient Greek: κάνδαυλος, also κάνδῡλος, ὁ) was an ancient Greek luxury dish of Lydian origin. The Ionian rich savoury confection was a new delicacy in Athens in the early 4th century BC.[1] According to the Greek rhetorician and grammarian Athenaeus (late 2nd century AD), kandaulos came in three forms. One of them was sweet, and is described by one Hellenistic source as a πλακοῦς, flat cake. A second was savoury, consisting of meat and broth with breadcrumbs. However, what these two kinds of kandaulos had in common with one another or with the third kind is not clear.[2]
The term kandaulos appears to be related to the Lydian word Kandaules (Κανδαύλης), recorded by Hipponax and Herodotus. This was a title of Hermes and Heracles and name or title of a Lydian king. But Tzetzes, a Byzantine poet and grammarian from the 12th century, says that kandaules was also Lydian for dog-throttler.[3] "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2k2nrl6vqs5bvulizkm7v6/bafkreidif6x4cb6mizm7knorqdcnea2htqorcro4a64hlqjbjz34vvtq5a)
June 11, 2026 at 8:27 PM
that wasn't a joke
Are Seafood and Fish Good for Your Brain?
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Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
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Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
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May 25, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Are Seafood and Fish Good for Your Brain?
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Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
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Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
Are Seafood and Fish Good for Your Brain?
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Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
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Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
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May 25, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Are Seafood and Fish Good for Your Brain?
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2657781/are-seafood-and-fish-good-for-your-brain/
Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
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Getty Images Rumor has it that one of the oldest known recipes in the Mediterranean – found in “Deipnosophistae” by the ancient Greek Athenaeus – is a recipe for fish …
"Your courage and drunkenness have ruined you, O Antiochus; for you hoped that, in your great cups, you would be able to drink up the kingdom of Arsaces.”
- Athenaeus, 10.439d-e
A silver tetradrachm of Antiochus VII Sidetes (r. 138-129)
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- Athenaeus, 10.439d-e
A silver tetradrachm of Antiochus VII Sidetes (r. 138-129)
Episode 121 is slated for release in the next few days!
May 24, 2026 at 2:47 PM
"Your courage and drunkenness have ruined you, O Antiochus; for you hoped that, in your great cups, you would be able to drink up the kingdom of Arsaces.”
- Athenaeus, 10.439d-e
A silver tetradrachm of Antiochus VII Sidetes (r. 138-129)
Episode 121 is slated for release in the next few days!
- Athenaeus, 10.439d-e
A silver tetradrachm of Antiochus VII Sidetes (r. 138-129)
Episode 121 is slated for release in the next few days!
A gigantic ship, a sexual joke, and novelty baked goods. All three, I suppose, are perfectly in keeping with the spirit of Athenaeus!
May 22, 2026 at 10:36 AM
A gigantic ship, a sexual joke, and novelty baked goods. All three, I suppose, are perfectly in keeping with the spirit of Athenaeus!
There are only three times Athenaeus uses the Greek word embolos in reference to a naval ram:
1. The seven rams of the tessarakonteres (which, in my opinion, is as ridiculous as the ship itself).
1. The seven rams of the tessarakonteres (which, in my opinion, is as ridiculous as the ship itself).
May 22, 2026 at 10:36 AM
There are only three times Athenaeus uses the Greek word embolos in reference to a naval ram:
1. The seven rams of the tessarakonteres (which, in my opinion, is as ridiculous as the ship itself).
1. The seven rams of the tessarakonteres (which, in my opinion, is as ridiculous as the ship itself).
New Tattoo!
It's #Antinous after the famous Albani-Relief holding the Antinoeios (Antinous Lotus). According to the ancient writer Athenaeus the flower sprang from the ground where #Hadrian and Antinous slew a lion.
Antinous was the lover of Emperor Hadrian. After his death Hadrian deified him.
It's #Antinous after the famous Albani-Relief holding the Antinoeios (Antinous Lotus). According to the ancient writer Athenaeus the flower sprang from the ground where #Hadrian and Antinous slew a lion.
Antinous was the lover of Emperor Hadrian. After his death Hadrian deified him.
May 20, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Writing in the 2nd century, Athenaeus of Naucratis provides a recipe for lagana which he attributes to the 1st-century Chrysippus of Tyana: sheets of dough made of wheat flour and the juice of crushed lettuce, then flavored with spices and deep-fried in oil. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta
Pasta - Wikipedia
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May 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Writing in the 2nd century, Athenaeus of Naucratis provides a recipe for lagana which he attributes to the 1st-century Chrysippus of Tyana: sheets of dough made of wheat flour and the juice of crushed lettuce, then flavored with spices and deep-fried in oil. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta
In Deipnosophists (10.83) Athenaeus claims that the fragment comes from the Greek historian Asclepiades. But this "oldest version of the riddle available" is much later than the Vatican kylix inscription. I'm looking for articles that may refer to possible c. 470 BCE literary sources of the riddle.
The Sphinx’s Riddle in Epic Meter: Scholia and Athenaeus
An ancient scholar records an interesting fragment with the famous riddle of the Sphinx from the story of Oedipus (Scholia to Euripides Phoenician Women 46): “It is two-footed, three-footed, and fo…
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April 22, 2026 at 12:12 PM
In Deipnosophists (10.83) Athenaeus claims that the fragment comes from the Greek historian Asclepiades. But this "oldest version of the riddle available" is much later than the Vatican kylix inscription. I'm looking for articles that may refer to possible c. 470 BCE literary sources of the riddle.
From Project Gutenberg:
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by of Naucratis Athenaeus
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66508
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by of Naucratis Athenaeus
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66508
April 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
From Project Gutenberg:
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by of Naucratis Athenaeus
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66508
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by of Naucratis Athenaeus
Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66508
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Enjoy!
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#ancientgreece #recipe #ancientfood #lamb #asafoetida
This post is not behind a paywall anymore so you can all read and get this ancient inspired recipe of lamb bathed in milk and honey and cooked in wine and date sauce!
Enjoy!
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#ancientgreece #recipe #ancientfood #lamb #asafoetida
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The scholia are happy it means ‘very strong’, but Athenaeus and Plutarch both report alternative explanations including that the wine is hot rather than unmixed
March 26, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The scholia are happy it means ‘very strong’, but Athenaeus and Plutarch both report alternative explanations including that the wine is hot rather than unmixed
For anyone wondering, the whole ‘hot wine’ thing seems to be a case of later readers getting so upset about the idea that Achilles and co at Iliad 9.203 might be drinking unmixed wine, they invented a whole load of dubious nonsense to explain it away. Athenaeus X.423c reports the explanations.
Question for #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
Does anyone know any scholarship about the Greeks potentially drinking wine hot (i.e. mixed with hot water)? I’ve got a very upset-sounding Julius Pollux who is very vexed about the apparently much-debated (?!) Q. of whether the ancients drank hot wine.
Does anyone know any scholarship about the Greeks potentially drinking wine hot (i.e. mixed with hot water)? I’ve got a very upset-sounding Julius Pollux who is very vexed about the apparently much-debated (?!) Q. of whether the ancients drank hot wine.
March 26, 2026 at 12:03 PM
For anyone wondering, the whole ‘hot wine’ thing seems to be a case of later readers getting so upset about the idea that Achilles and co at Iliad 9.203 might be drinking unmixed wine, they invented a whole load of dubious nonsense to explain it away. Athenaeus X.423c reports the explanations.
When Pollux and Athenaeus are both in a tizz about something weird, you can usually find it’s debated in the scholia to Homer 😂
March 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
When Pollux and Athenaeus are both in a tizz about something weird, you can usually find it’s debated in the scholia to Homer 😂
That’s alright! A lemma search is quick so hardly a goose chase. I’ve actually spent most of my morning looking at the scholia to the Iliad after a passage of Athenaeus on Homeric heroes mixing hot water into wine led me to the scholia.
March 26, 2026 at 11:38 AM
That’s alright! A lemma search is quick so hardly a goose chase. I’ve actually spent most of my morning looking at the scholia to the Iliad after a passage of Athenaeus on Homeric heroes mixing hot water into wine led me to the scholia.
Can I ask where you’re getting your texts from? Because that’s not what h have at Athenaeus 2.36d-e. And some of these words when I do a lemma search I don’t get any hits in Athenaeus at all.
March 26, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Can I ask where you’re getting your texts from? Because that’s not what h have at Athenaeus 2.36d-e. And some of these words when I do a lemma search I don’t get any hits in Athenaeus at all.