Athenion (comic poet)
id:
athenion-comic-poet-186-14847871
title:
Athenion (comic poet)
text:
Athenion was a poet of Ancient Greek comedy. The Greek grammarian Athenaeus preserves an extensive extract from one of his plays, The Samothracians (Σαμόρακες), in which a chef discourses philosophically about the role cooking plays in civilized society, namely that it "lured early humans away from cannibalism". His time is uncertain. We know for certain only that he lived in or before the time of Athenaeus, that is, the 3rd century CE. Stylistically, some scholars place him with Middle Comedy a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Ancient Greek comic poet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenion_(comic_poet)
date created:
2024-09-07T00:58:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:10:44Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q3627898","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3627898"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15