![]() However, the term is shaded by the harsh treatment accorded to professional teachers in Plato's Socratic dialogues, which made the English term sophist into a pejorative. It and its English derivative deipnosophists thus describe people who are skilled at dining, particularly the refined conversation expected to accompany Greek symposia. The Greek title Deipnosophistaí ( Δειπνοσοφισταί) derives from the combination of deipno- ( δειπνο-, "dinner") and sophistḗs ( σοφιστής, "expert, one knowledgeable in the arts of ~"). ![]() It is a long work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets held by the protagonist Publius Livius Larensis for an assembly of grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians, and hangers-on. The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work ( Ancient Greek: Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. ![]() Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and Jacques Daléchamps' Latin translation ![]()
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