Athenaeus

e. : /ˌæθəˈniːəs/; Greek: Ἀθήναιος Nαυκρατίτης Athēnaios Naukratitēs; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Deipnosophistae
The Deipnosophistae which mean "dinner-table philosophers" or perhaps "authorities on banquets" survives in fifteen books.

The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus who died in 192 shows that he survived that emperor. : /ˌæθəˈniːəs/; Greek: Ἀθήναιος Nαυκρατίτης Athēnaios Naukratitēs; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. Several of his publications are lost but the fifteen volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives.