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ARCHESTRATUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARCHESTRATUS  , of See also:

Syracuse or See also:Gela, a See also:Greek poet, who flourished about 330 B.C . After travelling extensively in See also:search of See also:foreign delicacies for the table, he embodied the result in a humorous poem called 'Hhvnr60cm, afterwards freely translated by See also:Ennius under the See also:title Heduphagetica . About 300 lines of this gastronomical poem are preserved in See also:Athenaeus . The writer, who has been styled the See also:Hesiod or Theognis of gluttons, parodies the See also:style of the old gnomic poets; See also:chief See also:attention is paid to details concerning See also:fish . See also:Ribbeck, Archestrati Reliquiae (1877) ; Brandt, Corpusculum Poesis Epicae Graecae ludibundae, i . 1888; Schmid, De Archestrati Gelensis Fragmentis (1896) .

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