From the Greek for "drinking together", the word was originally used to describe a part of public banquets after the meal was eaten when the men of Athens would drink wine to intoxication while listening to poetry and watching games.
From the Greek for "drinking together", the word was originally used to describe a part of public banquets after the meal was eaten when the men of Athens would drink wine to intoxication while listening to poetry and watching games. Such occasions were also opportune for philosophic discussions, and from these came a new word applied to a dialogue on a specific subject such as ideal love, the assets most prized by men, and drunkenness, the topics of works with this title by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle, respectively. FTP, give this word, commonly used now to describe  any conference on a specific subject.
From the Greek for "drinking together", the word was originally used to describe a part of public banquets after the meal was eaten when the men of Athens would drink wine to intoxication while listening to poetry and watching games.
symposium