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The symposion : drinking Greek style : essays on Greek pleasure, 1983-2017 / Oswyn Murray ; edited by Vanessa Cazzato ; with illustrations by Michael Gabriel.

As a social institution the Greek symposion exerted a powerful influence on archaic, classical, and later Greek culture, from perceptions of politics and philosophy, to attitudes towards sexuality, death, and religion. This volume collects together papers exploring the symposion by Oswyn Murray, a s...

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Main Author: Murray, Oswyn (Author)
Other Authors: Cazzato, Vanessa, 1977- (Editor), Gabriel, Michael (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party)
Food habits > Greece.
Pleasure > Social aspects > Greece.
Food habits.
Pleasure.
Greece.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Defining the subject. 1.The history of tastes (2016)
  • 2.The Greek Symposion in history (1983)
  • 3. Symposion and Männerbund (1982)
  • 4. Sympotic history (1990)
  • 5. Sympotica
  • twenty years on (2003)
  • 6. Conviviality in early cultures: the ancient Mediterranean and China (2000)
  • II. Origins. 7. Nestor's cup and the origins of the Greek Symposion (1994)
  • 8.The Symposion between East and West (2016)
  • 9.The Odyssey as performance poetry (2008)
  • III. The Symposion
  • social forms, modes, and limits. 10.The iconography of the Symposion (2015)
  • 11. Sympotic drinking rituals: mixing wine with water, Kalos vases, and the meaning of Epidexia, Proposis, and Philotēsia (2015)
  • 12.The Symposion and social status (2017)
  • 13. War and the Symposion (1991)
  • 14. violence and the Symposion (2016)
  • 15. Law and the Symposion (1992 and 1990)
  • 16. Erōs and the Symposion (2016)
  • 17. Death and the Symposion (1998); Envoi (2016)
  • 18.The affair of the mysteries: democracy and the drinking group (1990)
  • 19.The chorus of Dionysus: alcohol and old age in the Laws (2013)
  • 20. Euphrosynē and the psychology of pleasure (2005)
  • 21. Hellenistic royal Symposia (1996)
  • 22. Conclusion: Greek forms of sociality (1991)
  • IV. Roman reflections. 23. Symposium and genre in the poetry of Horace (1985)
  • 24.A 'stork-vase' from Mola di Monte Gelato (1991)
  • 25. Athenaeus and the encyclopedist (2014)
  • V. The history of pleasure. 26. Histories of pleasure (1995)
  • 27. Hedonism and History (2011)
  • 28. Renewing l'Histoire des moeurs (2012)

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