In hoc opere triginta personae, celebrantes Romae festos dies quondam Parilia nuncupatos, de permultis rebus disserunt, luxuriis, amoribus, musica, facetiis, philologia Graeca, sed praesertim de cibo, vino, ebrietate, cenis, conviviis. Citantur auctores fere 800, opera fere 2 000 scriptorum Graecorum antiquorum maxima parte deperdita.
Deipnosophistae in quindecim libris divisae sunt. Manuscriptus unus tantum hoc opus nobis praebet, videlicet Marcianus 447 ("A" apud editores), e quo libri I et II, prima pars libri III, ultima libri XV pagina aliaequa paginae paucae deperditae sunt. Ea quae nobis carent partim ex epitoma Deipnosophistarum restitui possunt, recensione abbreviata saeculo XII composita res librorum quindecim comprehendente.
Res principales
Textus Deipnosophistarum epitomaeque secundum paginas editionis Casauboni (1598) citari solet. Numeri paginarum sectionesque a-f cuiusque paginae in marginibus editionum recentiorum fere omnium recitantur.
Liber I: Epitome 1a-3f : praefatio; de forma operis
1514 : Marcus Musurus, ed., Ἀθηναίου δειπνοσοφιστοῦ τὴν πολυμαθεστάτην πραγματείαν νῦν ἔξεστι σοι φιλόλογε ... ἐς γνῶσιν ἐλθεῖν. Venetiis apud Aldum et Andream socerum, 1514 (Graece)Textusaliud exemplar
1535 : Iacobus Bedrotus, Christianus Herlinus, edd., Ἀθηναίου δειπνοσοφιστῶν βίβλια πεντεκαίδεκα: Athenaei Dipnosophistarum, hoc est argute sciteque in convivio disserentium, lib. XV. Basileae: apud I. Valderum, 1535 (Graece)Textus apud Monacenses
1680 : Michael de Marolles, interpr., Athénée: Les quinze lives des Deipnosophistes e versionibus Latinis Francogallice a Michaele de Marolles versi. Lutetiae: J. Langlois, 1680 (Francogallice)Textus interretialis
1827 : G. Dindorf, ed., Athenaei Deipnosophistarum libri XV. Lipsiae 1827. (Graece)123
1840 : Giovanni Petrettini, interpr., Dei dipnosofisti di Ateneo tutto che risguarda alle belle arti ... (Biblioteca greca delle belle arti, vol. 2). Mediolani: Molina, 1840 (Italiane) (Textus apud Google Books)
1854 : C. D. Yonge, interpr., The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus. 3 voll. Londinii: Henry Bohn, 1854. (Anglice)Textus huius versionisv. 1
1956 : A. M. Desrousseaux, ed. et interpr., Athénée de Naucratis: Les deipnosophistes: livres I et II. Lutetiae: Les Belles Lettres, 1956. (Collection Budé) (Graece, Francogallice)
1998-2001 : Claus Friedrich, interpr., T. Nothers, ed., Athenaios: Das Gelehrtenmahl. 5 voll. Stutgardiae: Hiersemann, 1998–2001
2000- : Lucía Rodríguez-Noriega Guillén, ed. et interpr., Ateneo: Banquete de sofistas. Vol. 1- . Matriti: Gredos, 1998-
2001 : Luciano Canfora, ed.; R. Cherubina et al., interprr.; Christian Jacob, praefat., Ateneo: I deipnosofisti: I dotti a banchetto. 4 voll. Romae: Salerno editrice, 2001 (Graece, Italiane)recensio huius editionis
2009 : Benoit Louyest, ed., Mots de poissons: le Banquet des sophistes, livres 6 et 7. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Septentrion, 2009
2018 : Sylvie Rougier-Blanc, ed., Athénée de Naucratis. Le banquet des savants, livre XIV: Spectacles, chansons, danses, musiques et desserts. 2 voll. Burdigalae: Ausonius. ISBN 9782356132369
2019- : Douglas Olson, ed., Athenaeus Naucratites: Deipnosophistae: volumina quinque quorum prima non iam prodit. Berolini: De Gruyter, 2019- (Bibliotheca Teubneriana)
1801-1807 : J. Schweighäuser, Animadversiones in Athenaei Deipnosophistas. Argentorati 1801-1807. 123456789 (indices)
Eruditio recentior
D. Ambaglio, "I Deipnosofisti di Ateneo e la tradizione storica frammentaria" in Athenaeum vol. 78 (1990) pp. 51-64
Barry Baldwin, "Athenaeus and His Work" in Acta Classica vol. 19 (1976) pp. 21-42 JSTOR
Aurélien Berra, "Athénée et le style" in Pierre Chiron, Carlos Lévy, edd., Les Noms du style dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine (Lovanii: Peeters, 2010) pp. 253-278
David Braund, John Wilkins, edd., Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire. Exoniae: University of Exeter Press, 2000
Jerzy Danielewicz, "Poetic Quotations and Discourse Strategies in Athenaeus" in Eos vol. 93 (2006) pp. 116-130
I. Düring, "De Athenaei Dipnosophistarum indole atque dispositione" in Apophoreta Gotoburgensia Vilelmo Lundström oblata (Gothenburgi, 1936) pp. 226-270
Robert J. Gorman, Vanessa B. Gorman, Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014
Catherine Grandjean, Anna Heller, Jocelyne Peigney, A la table des rois: luxe et pouvoir dans l'oeuvre d'Athénée. Redonis: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013. ISBN 978-2-7535-2888-8
Madeleine Henry, "The Edible Woman: Athenaeus's Concept of the Pornographic" in Amy Richlin, ed., Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (Oxoniae, 1992) pp. 250-268
Christian Jacob, "Ateneo, o il dedalo delle parole" in Luciano Canfora et al., edd., Ateneo: I deipnosofisti: i dotti a banchetto (Romae: Salerno editrice, 2001) vol. 1 pp. xi-cxvi
Christian Jacob, "La Citation comme performance dans les Deipnosophistes d'Athénée" in Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, ed., La Citation dans l'antiquité (Gratianopoli: Millon, 2004) pp. 147-174
Jeroen Lauwers, "The Dictates of Language: Food, Words, and Narcissism in Athenaeus's Dinner of the Sophists" in Arethusa vol. 49 (2016) pp. 47-60 JSTOR
Dominique Lenfant, "Peut-on se fier aux “fragments” des historiens? L’exemple des citations d’Hérodote" in Ktema vol. 24 (1999) pp. 103-121
Dominique Lenfant, ed., Athénée et les fragments d'historiens: actes du colloque de Strasbourg (16-18 juin 2005). Lutetiae: De Boccard, 2007. ISBN 9782701802305Textus
Pauline A. Leven, "New Music and its Myths: Athenaeus' reading of the aulos revolution ("Deipnosophistae" 14.616E-617F)" in Journal of Hellenic Studies vol. 130 (2010) pp. 35-47 JSTOR
Lajos Nyikos, Athenaeus quo consilio quibusque usus subsidiis Dipnosophistarum libros composuerit. Basileae, 1941; De hoc libro; recensio apud JSTOR
John Paulas, "How to Read Athenaeus' Deipnosophists" in American Journal of Philology vol. 133 (2012) pp. 403-439 Textus
Christopher Pelling, "Athenaeus and the Historians" (recensio operis Lenfant, ed. (2005)) in Classical Review n.s. vol. 59 (2009) pp. 428-431
Renate Schlesier, "A Sophisticated hetaira at Table: Athenaeus’ Sappho" in Bruno Currie, Ian Rutherford, edd., The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 2019) pp. 342-372 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
M. B. Trapp, recensio operis Olson, ed. (2006-2012) vol. 1-2 in International Journal of the Classical Tradition vol. 16 (2009) pp. 116-120 JSTOR
John Wilkins, Athenaeus the Navigator" in Journal of Hellenic Studies vol. 128 (2008) pp. 132-152 JSTOR
John Wilkins, Shaun Hill, "The sources and sauces of Athenaeus" in John Wilkins, David Harvey, Mike Dobson, edd., Food in antiquity (Exoniae: Exeter University Press, 1995) pp. 429-438
Giuseppe Zecchini, La cultura storica di Ateneo. Vita e pensiero, 1989. ISBN 8834303466
De singulis rebus fontibusque
W. G. Arnott, ed., Alexis: the fragments (Cantabrigiae, 1996) pp. 34–41
W. G. Arnott, "On editing comic fragments from literary and lexicographical sources" in D. Harvey, J. Wilkins, edd., The Rivals of Aristophanes (Londinii: Duckworth, 2000) pp. 1–13
Krystyna Bartol, "The Voice of Tradition: Representations of Homeric Singers in Athenaeus 1.14a-d" in Classical Quarterly n.s. vol. 57 (2007) pp. 231-243 JSTOR
Monica Berti et al., "Documenting Homeric Text Re-use in the "Deipnosophistae" of Athenaeus of Naucratis" in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies vol. 59 (2016) pp. 121-139 JSTOR
Ewen Bowie, "Athenaeus’ knowledge of early Greek elegiac and iambic poetry" in David Braund, John Wilkins, edd., Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire (Exoniae: University of Exeter Press, 2000) pp. 124–135
P. Cipolla, "Su alcuni citazioni Euripidee in Ate"” in David Braund, John Wilkins, edd., Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire (Exoniae: University of Exeter Press, 2000) pp. 203–217
Mark De Kreij, "Οὔκ ἐστι Σαπφοῦς τοῦτο τὸ ᾆσμα: Variants of Sappho's Songs in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae" in Journal of Hellenic Studies vol. 136 (2016) pp. 59-72 JSTOR
Robert J. Gorman, Vanessa B. Gorman, "The Tryphê of the Sybarites: A Historiographical Problem in Athenaeus" in The Journal of Hellenic Studies vol. 127 (2007) pp. 38-60 JSTOR
R. Hawley, "Pretty, Witty and Wise: courtesans in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistai book 13" in International Journal of Moral and Social Sciences vol. 8 (1993) pp. 73-91
D. Lenfant, "On Persian Tryphe in Athenaeus" in C. Tuplin, ed., Persian Responses (Swanseae, 2007) pp. 51-65
Laura McClure, Courtesans at Table. Gender and Literary Culture in Athenaeus. Novi Eboraci: Routledge, 2003
Laura McClure, "Subversive Laughter: The Sayings of Courtesans in Book 13 of Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae" in American Journal of Philology vol. 124 (2003) pp. 259-294 JSTOR
Ivan Matijašić, "Herodotus in the Theatre at Alexandria? On Athenaeus 14.620d" in Journal of Hellenic Studies vol. 139 (2019) pp. 83-93 JSTOR
R. Quaglia, "Citazioni di Aristofane e della comedia in Ateneo" in Maia vol. 53 (2001) pp. 611–633
Luciana Romeri, "Platon chez Athénée" in Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, ed., La Citation dans l'antiquité (Gratianopoli: Millon, 2004) pp. 175-188
K. Sidwell, "Athenaeus, Lucian and fifth-century comedy" in David Braund, John Wilkins, edd., Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire (Exoniae: University of Exeter Press, 2000) pp. 136–152
Luciana Romeri, Philosophes entre mots et mets: Plutarque, Lucien et Athénée autour de la table de Platon (Gratianopoli: Millon, 2002) pp. 278-290
De traditione et fortuna
W. G. Arnott, "Athenaeus and the Epitome: texts, manuscripts and early editions" in David Braund, John Wilkins, edd., Athenaeus and his world: reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire (Exoniae: University of Exeter Press, 2000) pp. 41-52
Christopher Collard, "Athenaeus, the Epitome, Eustathius and Quotations from Tragedy" in Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica vol. 97 (1969) pp. 157–179
Robert L. Fowler, "Paul Maas's Athenaeus" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik vol. 172 (2010) pp. 55-64 JSTOR