The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 February 2014
- ISBN 9780199684014
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 223x157x29 mm
- Weight 724 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great, its distinctive feature was the importance of diverse cultural competitions among the guests.
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In The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Broadly defined as a culture-oriented aristocratic banquet, the symposion--which literally means 'drinking together'--was a nocturnal wine party held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great. Its distinctive feature was the crucial importance of diverse cultural competitions, including improvising convivial poetry, among the guests. Cultural skills and abilities were a prerequisite in order for one to be included in elite drinking circles, and, as such, the symposion served as a forum for the natural selection of Greek aristocracy.
an important contribution to a growing body of revisionist scholarship on the symposium ... The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, with its wide-ranging new reading of the origins of the symposium and its thought-provoking interpretation of the dynamics of the early Greek community, will surely inspire many more such discussions.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Abbrieviations
Introduction
Part One: Defining the Symposion
Early Greek Aristocracy and the Symposion
Towards a definition of the symposion
Part Two: The Symposion and History
The Cup of Nestor, the Near East, and the Early Archaic Symposion
Homer, the 'Heroic Feast', and the Symposion
The Symposion and Archaeology till the Early 7th Century BC
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
