Faut-il prendre les Deipnosophistes au sérieux? Divers retraces this founding journey through

retraces this founding journey through more than 150 archival documents

-Volume II (1964): One hundred years of republican spirit

With 458 pieces

and sometimes naivety

Faut-il prendre les Deipnosophistes au sérieux? Divers retraces this founding journey throughFrom the aperitif to the last glass, Athenaeus of Naucratis reports the conversations of a circle of scholars gathered in the house of a high official of the Roman Empire, at the beginning of the 3rd century AD. Doctors, musicians, rhetoricians, and philosophers follow the ritual of the Greek banquet, dinner, then the sumposion, a time for wine and intellectual entertainment. But this early colloquium subverts the codes since it begins at the very