L’occasione e l’eterno: la tenda di Tolomeo Filadelfo nei palazzi di Alessandria. Parte prima. Materiali per la ricostruzione

The banquet canopy, erected by Ptolomaeus II in the Alexandrian palaces, is described by Athenaeus of Naukratis (in a text newly translated here), writing at the end of the 2nd century A.D., on the base of the account of Callixeinos Rhodios, who probably lived in the last decades of the 3rd century...

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Main Author: Elena Calandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2008-05-01
Series:Lanx
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Online Access:http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/lanx/article/view/124