Philosopher's Banquet

The Philosopher''s Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch''s Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato''s Symposium) and miscellany. The form of Table Talk was imitated by several later Greek and Roman imperial authors (such as Aulus Gellius, Athenaeus, and Macrobius), making it a vital part of the early Roman Empire''s literar...