ATHENÆUS, a Greek grammarian, born at Nauriacus.
Athenagoras 1 Athens. cratis in Egypt in the 3d century, one of the most learned men of his time. Of all his works we have none extant but his Deipnosophis, i. e. the sophists at table. There is an infinity of facts and quotations in this work which render it very agreeable to admirers of antiquity.
There is also a mathematician of this name, who wrote a treatise on mechanics, which is inserted in the works of the ancient mathematicians, printed at Paris in 1693, in folio, in Greek and Latin.