Sympotica : a symposium on the Symposion

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Sympotica : a symposium on the Symposion

edited by Oswyn Murray

Clarendon Press, 1990

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Conference proceedings

Bibliography: p. [321]-338

Includes index

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Rituals of commensality are fundamental to the understanding of human societies. The "Symposion" or male drinking group of archaic and classical Greece was an institution whose effects can be detected in the painted pottery and the poetry created for its use, and in many areas of ancient Greek social life, from politics and warfare to sexual attitudes and conceptions of pleasure. Greek sympotic customs spread to other cultures throughout the Mediterranean, with important consequences for their development. "Sympotica" covers the "Symposion" as a whole. It is the record of a symposium held in Oxford in 1984. The contributions discuss the importance of Greek drinking customs for antropology, archaeology, art history, literary studies, history and philosophy, and demonstrate the need for an inter-disciplinary approach. The editor provides a historical introduction to the field of sympotic studies, and a general bibliography. 24 plates illustrate the art of the "Symposion", and three concluding chapters consider the influence of Greek commensality on the Roman world. The work opens up a new field of research into the cultures of the Ancient World.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The study of the "Symposion": the study of the "Symposion" - sympotic history, Oswyn Murray
  • sacrificial meal and "Symposion", Pauline Schmitt-Pantel. Part 2 Sympotic space: sympotic space, Birgitta Bergquist
  • dining in round buildings, Fred Cooper and Sara Morris
  • dining in the century of Demeter and Kore at Corinth, Nancy Bookidis
  • the chronology of the Perachora "Hestiatorion" and its significance, R.A.Tomlinson. Part 3 Sympotic furniture: attic "Symposia" after the Persian Wars, Michael Vickers
  • "Symposion" furniture, John Boardman. Part 4 Social forms: adolescents, "Symposion" and pederasty, Jan Bremmer
  • the affair of the mysteries, Oswyn Murray
  • the meal at the Hyakinthia, Louis Bruit. Part 5 The "Symposion" as entertainment: outlines of a morphology of sympotic entertainment, Ezio Pellizer
  • entertainers at the "Symposion", Burkhard Fehr
  • around the Krater, Francois Lissarrague. Part 6 Literature and thought in the "Symposion": sympotic ethics in the "Odyssey", W.J.Slater
  • "Miles Ludens?", Ewen Bowie
  • "Mnemosyne" in the "Symposion", Wolfgang Rosler
  • "Logos sympotikos", Manuela Tecusan. Part 7 The "Symposion" as literary form: the play of reflections between literary form and the sympotic theme in the "Deipnosophistae" of Athenaeus, Alessandra Lukinovich
  • the "Anacreontea", M.L.West. Part 8 From Greece to Rome: the adoption of the Homeric banquet in Central Italy in the Orientalizing period, Annette Rathje
  • the "Carmina Convivalia", Nevio Zorzetti, Trieste
  • the Roman "Convivium" and the idea of equality, John d'Arms.

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