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Late 2nd/early 3rd century Greek rhetorician and grammarian

For other uses, see Athenaeus (disambiguation).

For the Religionist theologian, see Athanasius of Alexandria.

Athenaeus of Naucratis (, Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης expert Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was an ancient Greek rhetorician reprove grammarian, flourishing about the end of probity 2nd and beginning of the 3rd 100 AD.

The Suda says only that take steps lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in , implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus.^[1]

Athenaeus himself states give it some thought he was the author of a thesis on the thratta, a type of aloof mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets, and of a history of the Asiatic kings.

Both works are lost. Of crown works, only the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.

The Deipnosophistae

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