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Faut-il prendre les Deipnosophistes au sérieux? Arts and even the Surrealism ofFrom the aperitif to the last glass, Athenaeus of Naucratis reports the conversations of a circle of scholars gathered in the house of a high official of the Roman Empire, at the beginning of the 3rd century AD. Doctors, musicians, rhetoricians, and philosophers follow the ritual of the Greek banquet, dinner, then the sumposion, a time for wine and intellectual entertainment. But this early colloquium subverts the codes since it begins at the very