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Athenaeus of Naucratis (; or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; ) was a Greek rhetorician and 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, shows that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus.
Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen volumes Deipnosophistae mostly survives.
Athenaeus may refer to:
- Athenaeus (officer), an officer of Antigonus I Monophthalmus in the Third War of the Diadochi who led a campaign against the Nabataeans in 312 BC
- Athenaeus, son of Attalus I
- Athenaeus (musician), Greek composer who flourished 128 BC
- Athenaeus Mechanicus, a Peripatetic writer of the 1st century BC, author of On Machines
- Athenaeus of Attalia, physician of the Pneumatist School who practiced at Rome in the 1st century AD
- Athenaeus, of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD
Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus was an ancient Greek ( Athenian) composer and musician who flourished around 138–28 BC, when he composed the First Delphic Hymn. Although it was long thought that the composer of the First Hymn was merely "an Athenian", careful reading of the inscription shows that it cannot be the ethnic Athenaîos (from Athens), but rather names Athénaios Athenaíou (Athenaeus, son of Athenios) as the composer .
Athenaeus was an officer under the command of Greek general Antigonus I. Athenaeus is best known for his unsuccessful attempt to subdue the Arab Nabataeans.