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Author : Plato
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Banquet of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frieda Klotz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199588953
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher's Banquet written by Frieda Klotz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on 'Plutarch's Table Talk', an influential Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue and miscellany. The contributors offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of the work's literary form, themes, and cultural background.
Author : Marietta McCarty
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
ISBN 13 : 1585429260
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher's Table written by Marietta McCarty and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide for starting a "philosophy dinner club," a club that meets to discuss philosophy and cook food from each philosopher's home country.
Author : Athenaeus
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus written by Athenaeus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 1854 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work of ancient Greek literature, compiled in the 3rd century AD, is an encyclopedic compendium of knowledge, entertainment, and gossip. In this edition, translated and annotated by Charles Duke Yonge, readers will find fascinating insights into everything from ancient cookery to music theory. An essential resource for classicists and historians. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sir Michael SCOTT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Philosophers Banquet. Newly Furnished and Decked Forth with Much Variety of Many Severall Dishes ... (Written First by Michael Scotus in Latine.) written by Sir Michael SCOTT and published by . This book was released on 1614 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Grimwood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1609451511
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Last Banquet written by Jonathan Grimwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, the delectable decadence of Versailles, and the French Revolution, The Last Banquet is an intimate epic that tells the story of one man’s quest to know the world through its many and marvelous flavors. Jean-Marie d’Aumout will try anything once, with consequences that are at times mouthwatering and at others fascinatingly macabre (Three Snake Bouillabaisse anyone? Or perhaps some pickled Wolf's Heart?). When he is not obsessively searching for a new taste d’Aumout is a fast friend, a loving husband, a doting father, and an imaginative lover. He befriends Ben Franklin, corresponds with the Marquis de Sade and Voltaire, becomes a favorite at Versailles, thwarts a peasant uprising, improves upon traditional French methods of contraception, plays an instrumental role in the Corsican War of Independence, and constructs France’s finest menagerie. But d’Aumout’s every adventurous turn is decided by his at times dark obsession to know all the world’s flavors before that world changes irreversibly. As gripping as Patrick Suskind’s Perfume, as gloriously ambitious as Daniel Kehlman’s Measuring the World, and as prize-worthy as Andrew Miller’s Pure, The Last Banquet is a hugely appealing novel about food and flavor, about the Age of Reason and the ages of man, and our obsessions and about how, if we manage to survive them, they can bequeath us wisdom and consolation in old age.
Author : Michel Onfray
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780234554
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Appetites for Thought written by Michel Onfray and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher’s banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee. Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have been such a proponent of frugality if his daily menu had included something more than dairy products? Onfray offers a perfectly Kantian critique of the nose and palate, since “the idea obtained from them is more a representation of enjoyment than cognition of the external object.” He exposes Nietzsche’s grumpiness—really, Nietzsche grumpy?—about bad cooks and the retardation of human evolution, and he explores Sartre’s surrealist repulsion by shellfish because they are “food buried in an object, and you have to pry them out.” A fun romp through the culinary likes and dislikes of our most famous thinkers, Appetites for Thought will intrigue, provoke, and entertain, and it might also make you ponder a bite to eat.
Author : Athenaeus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674996731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (967 download)
Download or read book The Learned Banqueters, Volume VII written by Athenaeus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs, the music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).
Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378195
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Plato at the Googleplex written by Rebecca Goldstein and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
Author : Laura J. Snyder
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767930495
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Philosophical Breakfast Club written by Laura J. Snyder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ —Newsweek The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to talk about the state of science in Britain and the world at large. Inspired by the great 17th century scientific reformer and political figure Francis Bacon—another former student of Cambridge—the Philosophical Breakfast Club plotted to bring about a new scientific revolution. And to a remarkable extent, they succeeded, even in ways they never intended. Historian of science and philosopher Laura J. Snyder exposes the political passions, religious impulses, friendships, rivalries, and love of knowledge—and power—that drove these extraordinary men. Whewell (who not only invented the word “scientist,” but also founded the fields of crystallography, mathematical economics, and the science of tides), Babbage (a mathematical genius who invented the modern computer), Herschel (who mapped the skies of the Southern Hemisphere and contributed to the invention of photography), and Jones (a curate who shaped the science of economics) were at the vanguard of the modernization of science. This absorbing narrative of people, science and ideas chronicles the intellectual revolution inaugurated by these men, one that continues to mold our understanding of the world around us and of our place within it. Drawing upon the voluminous correspondence between the four men over the fifty years of their work, Laura J. Snyder shows how friendship worked to spur the men on to greater accomplishments, and how it enabled them to transform science and help create the modern world. "The lives and works of these men come across as fit for Masterpiece Theatre.” —Wall Street Journal "Snyder succeeds famously in evoking the excitement, variety and wide-open sense of possibility of the scientific life in 19th-century Britain...splendidly evoked in this engaging book.” —American Scientist "This fine book is as wide-ranging and anecdotal, as excited and exciting, as those long-ago Sunday morning conversations at Cambridge. The Philosophical Breakfast Club forms a natural successor to Jenny Uglow’s The Lunar Men...and Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder.” —Washington Post
Author : Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Αθηναιου Ναυκρατιτου Δειπνοσοφιστων written by Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenaeus (AD ca. 170–ca. 230), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, lived in Rome and wrote a historical work now lost. Of the fifteen books of his surviving Deipnosophists ('Sophists at Dinner'), the first two and parts of the third, eleventh, and fifteenth exist only in summary, the rest apparently complete. In it he pretends to tell a friend about a banquet at a scholar's house whither the learned guests brought extracts from poetry for recitation and discussion. Much of the matter however concerns the food provided and accessories. One learns about cooks, strange dishes, wines, menu cards, and countless other matters. Athenaeus was an antiquarian. The whole work, which mentions nearly eight hundred writers and two thousand five hundred writings, is a large treasury of information not only about table matters but also music, dances, games, and all sorts of literary subjects. And it abounds in quotations, mostly made direct by Athenaeus himself, from authors whose writings have not survived. The Loeb Classical Library edition of The Deipnosophists is in seven volumes. There is a comprehensive index in the final volume.
Author : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191536822
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Plato's Symposium written by Frisbee Sheffield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Symposion or The Banquet written by Xenophon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic Socratic dialogue, "The Symposium," is about a dinner party with Socrates talking to a group of people, leading to a discussion that touches on several topics. Through this work, Xenophon teaches readers about Socrates' philosophy. The main themes include beauty and passion, wisdom, integrity, and laughter, which are prompted by Philippos, the jester, and the witty discourse of the dinner guests.
Author : Athanaeus
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Deipnosophists written by Athanaeus and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Platon Platon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)
Download or read book The Banquet written by Platon Platon and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ✆A translated and revised work IDEAL FOR LOVERS OF A GOOD READ → Quality works to enjoy on your kindle. Plato says in his work: Here, then, is the correct method of approaching erotic questions or of being led by another: starting with the beautiful things of this world and having as an end that beauty in question and, using them as scales, constantly ascending, going from a single body to two and from two to all beautiful bodies and from beautiful bodies to the beautiful rules of conduct, and from the rules of conduct to the beautiful sciences, until finishing, starting from these, in that science of before, which is not a science of anything else but of absolute beauty, and finally to get to know what beauty itself is. " According to In Plato's Banquet, theoretical speculation and aesthetic creation are intertwined in such a way that it is difficult to frame them exclusively in the history of philosophy or in that of literature. Devoted to discussing love, after successive and unsatisfactory ways of approaching the question, the doctrine of platonic love is exposed through Socrates and his supposed mentor, the priestess Diotima, which in successive degrees of abstraction leads to that kind of unio mystica. with the ideal form of beauty to which the true lover of beautiful things arrives. This dialogue anticipates the doctrine of the salvific function of love expounded in the Phaedrus, but above all it recreates that unrepeatable intellectual environment of late 5th century BC Athena. In its various manifestations, Although born in the homoerotic environment of the Academy, The Platonic Banquet created the symposium literary genre and managed to avoid, thanks to its immense beauty, the dangers that over the centuries loomed over "nefarious love." About the Author: Plato was a Greek philosopher follower of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. In 387 a. C. founded the Academy of Athens, an institution that would continue for more than nine hundred years and to which Aristotle would go from Estagira to study philosophy around 367 BC. C., sharing twenty years of friendship and work with his teacher. Plato developed his philosophical doctrines through myths and allegories.
Author : Sappho
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sappho Says-- written by Sappho and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Athenaeus (of Naucratis.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned written by Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
