This is a list of the 24 characters (

deipnosophists The ''Deipnosophistae'' is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work ( grc, Δειπνοσοφισταί, ''Deipnosophistaí'', lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of liter ...

or ''sophists at dinner'') who take part in the banquet described by

Athenaeus of Naucratis Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

in the '' Deipnosophistae''. Some of them can be probably identified with great names of the past, but it is still debated if most of the Deipnosophists were fictions. A digital version of the index of the characters of the ''Deipnosophists'' published by Georg Kaibel is available through th
Digital Athenaeus
project (''Dialogi Personae'').

Characters

Athenaeus of Naucratis

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

( grc, Ἀθήναιος) is the narrator of the Deipnosophistae and also a guest at the dinner party described in the work. He is presented as the father of the book and as offering his account to Timocrates, imitating

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

in his dramatization of the dialogue. In the text we are informed that Athenaeus wrote also a work ''On the Kings of Syria''
5.211a = 5.47
= ''FGrHist'' 166 F 1 = ''BNJ'' 166 F 1) and a private treatise on small sea-fishes (''thraittai'')
7.329c = 7.138
.''Brill's New Jacoby'' 166 F 1
/ref>

Timocrates

Timocrates ( grc, Τιμοκράτης) is

’ interlocutor
1.1a = 1.1
.

Aemilianus of Mauretania

Aemilianus of Mauretania ( grc, Αἰμιλιανὸς Μαυρούσιος) is a grammarian (e.g.
3.126b = 3.100
.

Alceides of Alexandria

Alceides of Alexandria ( grc, Ἀλκείδης Ἀλεξανδρεύς) is a musician
1.1f = 1.24.174b = 4.75
.

Amoebeus

Amoebus ( grc, Ἀμοιβεύς) is a citharode
14.622d–e = 14.17
.

Arrian

Arrian ( grc, Ἀρριανός) is a grammarian
3.113a = 3.79
.

Cynulcus

Cynulcus ( grc, Κύνουλκος is a Cynic philosopher whose given name is Theodorus (e.g
1.1d = 1.23.97c = 3.51
.

Daphnus of Ephesus

Daphnus of Ephesus ( grc, Δάφνος Ἐφέσιος) is a physician (e.g
1.1e = 1.22.51a = 2.35
.

Democritus of Nicomedia

Democritus of Nicomedia ( grc, Δημόκριτος Νίκομηδεύς) is a philosopher
1.1e = 1.23.83c = 3.25
.

Dionysocles

Dionysocles ( grc, Διονυσοκλῆς is a physician
3.96d = 3.50116d = 3.84
.

Galen of Pergamum

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one ...

of Pergamum ( grc, Γαληνός τε ὁ Περγαμηνός is the famous physician (e.g
1.1e = 1.226c = 1.48
.

Larensius

Larensius of Rome ( grc, Λαρήνσιος Ῥωμαῖος) is identified with Publius Livius Larensis, a Roman official and also host of the party of the ''Deipnosophistae'' (e.g
1.1a = 1.12.50f = 2.35
.

Leonides of Elis

Leonides of Elis ( grc, Λεωνίδης ὁ Ἠλεῖος) is a grammarian (e.g
1.1d = 1.23.96d = 3.50
.

Magnus

Magnus ( grc, Μάγνος) is defined as ''philotrápezos'' (fond of the table), but is not associated with any professions or arts (e.g
3.74c = 3.6
.

Masurius

Masurius ( grc, Μανσούριος) is a jurist, poet and musician, and can be probably identified with

Masurius Sabinus Masurius Sabinus, also Massurius, was a Roman jurist who lived in the time of Tiberius (reigned 14–37 AD). Unlike most jurists of the time, he was not of senatorial rank and was admitted to the equestrian order only rather late in life, by virtu ...

(e.g
1.1c = 1.214.623e = 14.18
.

Myrtilus of Thessaly

Myrtilus of Thessaly ( grc, Μυρτίλος Θετταλικός) is a grammarian (e.g
3.83a = 3.25
.

Palamedes the Eleatic

Palamedes the Eleatic ( grc, ὁ Ἐλεατικὸς Παλαμήδης) is a lexicographer
9.379a = 9.55
.

Philadelphus of Ptolemais

Philadelphus of Ptolemais ( grc, Φιλάδελφός τε ὁ Πτολεμαεύς) is a philosopher
1.1d = 1.2
.

Plutarch of Alexandria

Plutarch of Alexandria ( grc, Πλούταρχος) is a grammarian (e.g
1.1c = 1.23.83b = 3.25
.

Pontianus of Nicomedia

Pontianus of Nicomedia ( grc, Ποντιανὸς Νικομηδεύς) is a philosopher
1.1d = 1.23.109b = 3.74
.

Rufinus of Nicaea

Rufinus of Nicaea ( grc, Ῥουφῖνός τε ὁ Νικαεύς) is a physician
1.1f = 1.2
.

Ulpian of Tyre

Ulpian of Tyre ( grc, Οὐλπιανὸς ὁ Τύριος) is a grammarian and also symposiarch and possibly father of the famous jurist

Ulpian Ulpian (; la, Gnaeus Domitius Annius Ulpianus; c. 170223? 228?) was a Roman jurist born in Tyre. He was considered one of the great legal authorities of his time and was one of the five jurists upon whom decisions were to be based according to ...

(e.g
1.1d = 1.22.49a = 2.32
.

Varus

Varus ( grc, Οὔαρος is a grammarian
3.118d = 3.88
.

Zoilus

Zoilus Zoilus ( el, Ζωΐλος ''Zoilos''; c. 400320 BC) was a Greek grammarian, Cynic philosopher, and literary critic from Amphipolis in Eastern Macedonia, then known as Thrace. He took the name Homeromastix (Ὁμηρομάστιξ "Homer whip ...

( grc, Ζωίλος) is a grammarian (e.g
1.1d = 1.27.277c = 7.5
.

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Bibliography

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