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Plutarch's Table Talk offers readers a rich melange of science, medicine, history and literature. The readings in this book offer a way into this varied and fascinating text. They link it with key intellectual trends and concerns of the High Empire and Second Sophistic. They explore the background of the genre of miscellany and interrogate Table Talk 's sympotic history. In addition the essays navigate the slippery path between historicity and fiction and suggest new approaches to a text that has so far been principally dominated by questions of source-criticism.