New perspectives consider Athenaeus in his historical and intellectual context. This constitutes important progress especially for the mentioned literary genres of ancient Greek comedy and historiography. Research work enquiring into the function of these fifteen books and the literary methods used for them opens new questions and perspectives on the quoted texts. Even though this traditional area remains valuable for scholarship, the development of literary studies and their new focus on texts has also influenced the examination of Athenaeus. Therefore Athenaeus was and is still an important author for those working on critical editions of fragmentary texts, especially of ancient Greek comedy and historiography. Of a lot of them we would not have any text without him. During the 19th and the great part of the 20th century, scholarship was mainly interested in Athenaeus as a source for the many authors he quotes in his work.
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