Sympotica A Symposium on the Symposion

by Murray, Oswyn

ISBN13: 9780198150046

ISBN10: 0198150040

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 1995-02-23

Publisher(s): Clarendon Press

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The symposion or male drinking group of archaic and classical Greece was an institution whose influence can be detected in many areas of ancient Greek life, from politics and warfare, to painted pottery and poetry, to sexual attitudes and conceptions of pleasure. This is the first book to be published on the symposion as a whole. The papers discuss a wide range of topics from the importance of Greek drinking customs to anthropology, archaeology, art history, literary studies, history, and philosophy. In addition, Murray includes a useful historical introduction to the field of sympotic studies and a general bibliography.

Preface	p. v
List of Plates	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
The Study of the Symposion	p. 1
Sympotic History	p. 3
Bibliography	p. 11
Sacrificial Meal and Symposion: Two Models of Civic Institutions in the Archaic City?	p. 14
Appendix: Banquet Scenes on Archaic Vases	p. 27
Bibliography	p. 31
Sympotic Space	p. 35
Sympotic Space: a Functional Aspect of Greek Dining-Rooms	p. 37
Appendix: References and Comments to Accompany Tables 1-4	p. 57
Bibliography	p. 61
Dining in Round Buildings	p. 66
Bibliography	p. 82
Ritual Dining in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth: Some Questions	p. 93
The Chronology of the Perachora Hestiatorion and Its Significance	p. 100
Sympotic Furniture	p. 103
Attic Symposia After the Persian Wars	p. 105
Bibliography	p. 117
Symposion Furniture	p. 122
Bibliography	p. 130
Social Forms	p. 133
Adolescents, Symposion, and Pederasty	p. 135
Bibliography	p. 145
The Affair of the Mysteries: Democracy and the Drinking Group	p. 149
Bibliography	p. 160
The Meal at the Hyakinthia: Ritual Consumption and Offering	p. 162
Bibliography	p. 173
The Symposion as Entertainment	p. 175
Outlines of a Morphology of Sympotic Entertainment	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 184
Entertainers at the Symposion: the Akletoi in the Archaic Period	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 194
Around the Krater: an Aspect of Banquet Imagery	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 207
Literature and Thought in the Symposion	p. 211
Sympotic Ethics in the Odyssey	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 219
Miles Ludens? the Problem of Martial Exhortation in Early Greek Elegy	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 229
Mnemosyne in the Symposion	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 236
Logos Sympotikos: Patterns of the Irrational in Philosophical Drinking: Plato Outside the Symposium	p. 238
Bibliography	p. 260
The Symposion as Literary Form	p. 261
The Play of Reflections Between Literary Form and the Sympotic Theme in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 271
The Anacreontea	p. 272
From Greece to Rome	p. 277
The Adoption of the Homeric Banquet in Central Italy in the Orientalizing Period	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 286
The Carmina Convivalia	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 305
The Roman Convivium and the Idea of Equality	p. 308
Bibliography	p. 320
Bibliography	p. 321
Addenda	p. 339
Index	p. 345
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