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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Oswyn, author.

Contributor:

Cazzato, Vanessa, 1977- editor.

Gabriel, Michael, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party).

Food habits--Greece.

Food habits.

Pleasure--Social aspects--Greece.

Pleasure.

Pleasure--Social aspects.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xii, 457 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 scholar whose work ignited and defined the field.

Contents:

I. Defining the subject. 1. The history of tastes (2016)

2. The Greek Symposion in history (1983)

3. Symposion and M�annerbund (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 Philot�esia (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. Er�os 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. Euphrosyn�e 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).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-440) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198814627

0198814623

OCLC:

1039952985