Symposion : Drinking Greek Style
Subtitle: Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780198814627
Subjects: Symposium (classical literature)
Description: 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.