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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book X Book X. 423 c When, then, a large cup had been given Ulpian said: “Fill your ladle, slave, with stronger wine and pour it into my cup; not as the comic poet Antiphanes has it, who says in The Twins*: ‘He took and brought the big cup to me, and I made him pour in un...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IX Book IX. 393 b - c The middle syllable of the name for quail is prolonged in Attic Greek, just as in doidyka (pestle) and in keryka (herald); so Demetrius Ixion states in his treatise On the Alexandrian Dialect. But Aristophanes made it short in The Peace, for the...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VIII Book VIII. 334 a - b I know that Phylarchus also speaks somewhere of large fish, and green figs sent to them, by Patroclus, Ptolemy’s general, to King Antigonus by way of hinting what would happen to him, just as the Scythians did to Darius when he was invading ...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VII Book VII. 276 f – 277 a Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander were apple-lovers, according to Dorotheus in the sixth book of his History of Alexander. And Chares of Mitylene records that Alexander, finding that the best apples were in Babylonia, filled his ship...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book VI Book VI. 223 d – e In like manner we, Timocrates, merely restore to you the morsels left by the Dinner-Sophists, we do not give them: so quotes the orator from Cothoce in his tirade against Demosthenes. He, when Philip offered to give Halonnesus to the Athenians, ...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book V Book V. 206 d - e With regard to the construction of the ship built by Hieron of Syracuse, which was superintended by the mathematician Archimedes, I hold it not right to be silent, since a certain Moschion has published a treatise on it which I have recently read ...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book IV Book IV. 128 c – 131 e In Macedonia, as I have already said, Caranus celebrated his marriage with a banquet at which the number of men invited to gather was twenty; no sooner had they taken their places on the couches than they were presented with silver cups, one...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book III Book III. 73 b - d Phylarchus says: “Never before, in any region, had Egyptian beans been sown, or, if they were, did they grow anywhere except in Egypt. But in the reign of Alexander, son of Pyrrhus, it chanced that they sprang up in a swamp near the Thyamis riv...

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book I Book II. 42 f. In the dominion of Carthage there is a well in which the water at the top is like oil, but of a darker hue; they skim this off in globules and use it for sheep and cattle. Among other people also occur springs with a similar oiliness, like the one in...

There was a programme on BBC 4 last night about, mainly, ancient Greek music. For anyone with access to BBC iplayer, you may be able to catch it on there, or perhaps it will turn up on PBS America. It was called Discovering the Music of Antiquity. Anyway, a small piece of folder papyrus was found in...

Look forward to seeing some photos, Pauline!

Coincidentally, I watched a programme on television last night about ancient Greek music!

Athenaeus - Deipnosophists Book I Book I. 3 d The rest of your rich men ought to be like that. For to those who do not practise such hospitality one may say, “Why are you so niggardly? ‘Surely thy tents are full of wine; spread a bountiful feast for the elders. It is fitting for thee.*’ ” Such was ...

Can you give me a list of all the movies? I've seen a lot but it seems there are many movies I've missed. Oh Lord, that's a big ask! There haven't been that many movies with a cinematic release that I am aware of. The main ones I know of are Oliver Stone's Alexander, Richard Burton's Alexander the ...

Aelian - Varia Historia Book 12.51 The doctor Menecrates became so arrogant that he called himself Zeus. One day he sent Philip of Macedon a letter in the following terms: “Menecrates Zeus greets Philip.” Philip replied: “Philip wishes Menecrates good health. I advise you to take yourself off to th...