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The rise of the Greek aristocratic banquet /
In this book 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 noct...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Corby :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 0.1 AN OUTLINE OF SYMPOTIC STUDIES
- 0.2 SYMPOSION IN PERSPECTIVE: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- 0.3 ENTERING THE SYMPOSION: THE HISTORICAL UNITY OF THE GREEK ARISTOCRATIC BANQUET
- 0.4 APPENDIX I : TYPOLOGIES OF THE FEAST: TWO THEORETICAL MODELS
- I: Defining the Symposion
- 1: Early Greek Aristocracy and the Symposion
- ""1.1 THE NATURE OF ARCHAIC GREEK ARISTOCRACY""""1.1.1 What is Early Greek Aristocracy?""; ""1.1.2 The Equal and the More Equal in the Archaic City""; ""1.1.3 A Precarious Ã?lite""; ""1.2 DESCRIBING THE SYMPOSION: A WORKING HYPOTHESIS""; ""1.2.1 Terminology of the Symposion""; ""1.2.2 Organization of the Symposion: Its Framework and Participants""; ""1.2.3 Organization of the Symposion: Ceremony and Entertainment""; ""1.3 SYMPOSION AND ARISTOCRACY: SOCIAL REALITIES AND GROUP-IDEALS""; ""1.3.1 Sympotic Inequalities in Action""; ""1.3.2 Sympotic Dreams of Equality""
- ""1.4 CONCLUSIONS: THE NATURE AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ARISTOCRATIC BANQUET""""1.4.1 Symposion and the Natural Selection of the Archaic Aristocracy""; ""1.4.2 Symposion as a Type of Feast""; ""1.5 APPENDIX II: SEX AND THE SYMPOSION""; ""2: Towards a Definition of the Symposion""; ""2.1 �REJOICE WHILE THE CUP GOES CIRCLING ROUND!�""; ""2.1.1 The Circulating Cup and the Organization of the Symposion""; ""2.1.2 The Ritual Origins of the Epidexia Practice""; ""2.2 �ANTI-SYMPOSIA� IN GREEK THOUGHT""; ""2.2.1 The Circulating Cup and the `Anti-Symposion�""
- ""2.2.2 The Drinking Contest of the Anthesteria Festival in Athens""""2.2.3 Andreia, Cretan Public Messes""; ""2.2.4 Spartan Syssitia, XenophanesÂ? Symposion, and the Banquets of Cleomenes III""; ""2.3 CONCLUSIONS: TOWARDS A NEW DEFINITION OF THE SYMPOSION""; ""2.3.1 Symposion and the Reclining Party in Greek Sympotic Imagery""; ""2.3.2 Defining the Symposion: The Circulating Cup and the Social Dynamics of the Aristocratic Banquet""; ""II: The Symposion and History""; ""3: The `Cup of NestorÂ?, the Near East, and the Early Archaic Symposion""; ""3.1 The `Cup of NestorÂ? and the Symposion""
- ""3.1.1 The First Convivial Poem of the Greeks""""3.1.2 The `Cup of NestorÂ?, the Epidexia Rule, and Ã?lite Banqueting at Pithekoussai""; ""3.1.3 The `Cup of NestorÂ? and the Late Geometric Symposion""; ""3.2 Symposion and the Near East""; ""3.2.1 Pithekoussan Banquets between East and West""; ""3.2.2 Symposion and the Iconography of the Levantine Feast""; ""3.2.3 Symposion and the Levantine MarzÄ?a-Parallels and Contrasts""; ""3.3 The Reclining Banquet and Early Sympotic Architecture""; ""3.3.1 Archilochus, Kallinos, and the Chronology of the Reclining Banquet in the Aegean""