scholarly interest in the literary aspects of Athenaeus' Deipnosophists has increased greatly over the last decade, but little analysis proceeds from the perspective of the reader. This article seeks to redress that situation by showing how "readerly" engagement involving inter-and intratext renders Athenaeus' text both meaningful and pleasurable to read. I analyze the text as a dramatization of acts of reading inter-and intratextually. such reading broadly employs symbolism and symbolic language. Understanding this way of reading and its rhetoric enables modern readers to see the Deipnosophists as a literary work rather than merely a repository of knowledge.

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Although scholars have noticed that fish sellers receive especially negative treatment in fourthcentury comedy, they have generally attributed this negativity to the price and supply of fish or a simple cultural bias against commercial activity. I argue that to make sense of fourth-century comic fragments about the fish market, we should look to attitudes and practices among participants in modern bazaar economies as analyzed by anthropologists. If we view the comic material in light of these economies, we may more clearly glimpse the source of the negative attitude towards fish sellers and the motivation behind comic treatments of the fish market.

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Cheese (Gr. tyros , L. caseus or caseum , Sum. GA. À R A(?), Akk. eqidu (?)) generally referred to a product composed of curd produced in the coagulation of milk by an added enzyme. The coagulant typically used, rennet, was derived from a stomach chamber (the abomasum) of suckling ruminants (e.g., calves, lambs, kids, or fawns), but ancient authors also mention hares as a source for rennet. Plant‐derived coagulant enzymes were also used, most prominently one found in the latex of fig trees. Varro ( Rust . 2.11) briefly mentions vinegar as a coagulant.