Sympotica a symposium on the symposion edited by Oswyn Murray.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. The study of the symposion. Sympotic history / Oswyn Murray ; Sacrificial meal and symposion : two models of civic institutions in the Archaic city ? / Pauline Schmitt-Pantel -- II. Sympotic space. Sympotic space : a functional aspect of Greek dining-rooms / Birgitta Bergquist ; Dining in round buildings / Frederick Cooper and Sarah Morris ; Ritual dining in the Santuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth : some questions / Nancy Bookidis ; The chronology of the Perachora hestiatorion and its significance / R.A. Tomlinson -- III. Sympotic furniture. Attic symposia after the Persian wars / Michael Vickers ; Symposion furniture / John Boardman -- IV. Social forms. Adolescents, symposion, and pederasty / Jan N. Bremmer ; The affair of the mysteries : democracy and the drinking group / Oswyn Murray ; The meal at the hyakinthia : ritual consumption and offering / Louise Bruit -- V. The symposion as entertainment. Outlines of a morphology of sympotic entertainment / Ezio Pellizer ; Entertainers at the symposion : the Akletoi in the archaic period / Burkhard Fehr ; Around the Krater : an aspect of banquet imagery / Francois Lissarague -- VI. Literature and thought in the symposion. Sympotic ethics in the Odyssey / W.J. Slater ; Miles Ludens ? the problem of martial exhortation in early Greek elegy / Ewen Bowie ; Mnemosyne in the symposion / Wolfgang Rθosler ; Logos sympotikos : patterns of the irrational in philosophical drinking : plato outside the symposium / Manuela Tecusςan -- VII. 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 -- VIII. From Greece to Rome. The adoption of the Homeric banquet in central Italy in the Orientalizing period / Annette Rathje ; The carmina cornivalia / Nevio Zorzetti ; The Roman convivium and the idea of equality / John D'Arms.