Editing Athenaeus (section)

{{Short description|Late 2nd/early 3rd century Greek rhetorician and grammarian}}
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{{About||the Christian theologian|Athanasius of Alexandria}}
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| name = Athenaeus of Naucratis
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| birth_date = Late 2nd century AD
| birth_place = [[Naucratis]], [[Roman Empire]] (modern-day Egypt)
| death_date = Early 3rd century AD
| death_place = Unknown
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*Writer
*grammarian
*[[rhetoric]]ian
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| notableworks = ''[[Deipnosophistae]]''
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'''Athenaeus of [[Naucratis]]''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|θ|ə|ˈ|n|iː|ə|s}}, {{langx|grc|Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης}} or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; {{langx|la|Athenaeus Naucratita}}) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and [[Grammarian (Greco-Roman)|grammarian]], flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. 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, implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of [[Adrantus]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Adrantus | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] | volume = 1 | pages = 20 | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0029.html | access-date = 2016-05-10 | archive-date = 2005-12-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051218152312/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0029.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the ''thratta'', a type of fish mentioned by [[Archippus (poet)|Archippus]] and other comic poets, and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost. Of his works, only the fifteen-volume ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' mostly survives.