The Agronomic Tradition in Athenaeus of Naucratis (2.49b-3.85c): sources, genres and authors

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Jordi Sanchis Llopis
Universitat de València
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9963-4852

In the work of Athenaeus of Naucratis, questions relating to the agricultural world occupy a very important place, from perspectives as diverse as botany, gastronomy, medicine, ethnography, agronomy, or mere erudition. In books II and III (49b-85c) in particular, Athenaeus shows himself to be familiar, directly or indirectly, with the long tradition of agricultural literature: for the description and differentiation of agricultural products, he turns to a wide variety of sources of different genres, but only occasionally to agricultural treatises.

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, botany, agriculture, sources, literary tradition

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Sanchis Llopis, Jordi. “The Agronomic Tradition in Athenaeus of Naucratis (2.49b-3.85c): sources, genres and authors”. Faventia, 2025, vol.VOL 47, pp. 81-93, doi:10.5565/rev/faventia.229.
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