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- The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style: Essays on Greek Pleasure 198
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- 2018-07-26
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- 9780198814627
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Symposion: Drinking Greek Style : Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017
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- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Subject
- History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical
- Publication Year
- 2018
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- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Item Weight
- 37.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages, 496 Pages
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0198814623
ISBN-13
9780198814627
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512 Pages, 496 Pages
Publication Name
Symposion: Drinking Greek Style : Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Subject
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
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Hardcover
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Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
37.4 Oz
Item Length
10 in
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7 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2017-959395
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23
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It is difficult to imagine someone dryly writing about wine and drink without a sense of the enjoyment of the same. Murray's impressive erudition, applied with a light touch, and laced with just measures of wit allows his readers to participate in those delights., "It is difficult to imagine someone dryly writing about wine and drink without a sense of the enjoyment of the same. Murray's impressive erudition, applied with a light touch, and laced with just measures of wit allows his readers to participate in those delights." -- Jenny Strauss Clay, Religious Studies Review
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Yes
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394.1/20938
Table Of Content
I. DEFINING THE SUBJECT1. The History of Tastes (2016)2. The Greek Symposion in History (1983)3. Symposion and Männerbund (1982)4. Sympotic History (1990)5. Sympotica--Twenty Years On (2003)6. Conviviality in Early Cultures: The Ancient Mediterranean and China (2000)II. ORIGINS7. 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 LIMITS10. The Iconography of the Symposion (2015). Appendix: Some Modern Interpretations11. Sympotic Drinking Rituals: Mixing Wine with Water, Kalos Vases, and the Meaning of Epidexia, Proposis, and Philotesia (2015)12. The Symposion and Social Status (2017)13. War and the Symposion (1991)14. Violence at the Symposion (2016)15. Law and the Symposion (1992 and 1990)16. Eros and the Symposion (2016)17. Death and the Symposion (1988). 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. Euphrosyne and the Psychology of Pleasure (2005)21. Hellenistic Royal Symposia (1996)22. Conclusion: Greek Forms of Sociality (1991)IV. ROMAN REFLECTIONS23. Symposium and Genre in the Poetry of Horace (1985)24. A 'Stork-Vase' from Mola di Monte Gelato (1991)25. Athenaeus the Encyclopedist (2014)V. THE HISTORY OF PLEASURE26. Histories of Pleasure (1995)27. Hedonism and History (2011)28. Renewing l'Histoire des moeurs (2012)EndmatterAbbreviations and ConventionsList of IllustrationsBibliographyIndex of Ancient AuthorsIndex of Greek VasesGeneral Index
Synopsis
Symposion is the Greek word for "drinking together" - the social institution of reclining on couches and enjoying the pleasures of wine, sex, and song. Although the Greeks learned the rituals of communal drinking from the Near East, they turned them into a way of life entirely their own, such that for the male revellers they were elevated into a conception of euphrosyne (bliss), the highest form of pleasure. The symposion became a focal point of Greek aristocratic art and culture in the archaic age, proclaimed in poetry and the visual arts, while its structures affected the Greek attitude to life in all its aspects, from the perception of politics, society, philosophy, and psychology, to attitudes towards sexuality, death, and religion. Even when the symposion began to lose its dominance in the classical democratic city state, it was never abandoned, but continued throughout the Hellenistic age and was transmitted through trade and cultural contact to the Etruscans, the Romans, and throughout the Mediterranean. One of the longest surviving works from antiquity is an encyclopaedia of Greek drinking customs compiled in the third century AD, and we can still trace the remnants of this sympotic culture today: the story of Greek pleasure thus lies both at the heart of antiquity and of the western history and conception of pleasure, and even now continues to resonate down the ages. Oswyn Murray's research on ancient Greek drinking customs, beginning in 1983, ignited a major new field of research in archaeology, art history, Greek literature, and Greek history and established him as an expert in the field. This volume consolidates his unrivalled contribution by gathering together the numerous essays on sympotic subjects that he has written over a span of thirty years, and charting half a lifetime of thought on a theme on which he has had a shaping influence., 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., Symposion is the Greek word for 'drinking together'the social institution of reclining on couches and enjoying the pleasures of wine, sex, and song. Although the Greeks learned the rituals of communal drinking from the Near East, they turned them into a way of life entirely their own, such that for the male revellers they were elevated into a conception of euphrosyne (bliss), the highest form of pleasure. The symposion became a focal point of Greek aristocratic art and culture in the archaic age, proclaimed in poetry and the visual arts, while its structures affected the Greek attitude to life in all its aspects, from the perception of politics, society, philosophy, and psychology, to attitudes towards sexuality, death, and religion. Even when the symposion began to lose its dominance in the classical democratic city state, it was never abandoned, but continued throughout the Hellenistic age and was transmitted through trade and cultural contact to the Etruscans, the Romans, and throughout the Mediterranean. One of the longest surviving works from antiquity is an encyclopaedia of Greek drinking customs compiled in the third century AD, and we can still trace the remnants of this sympotic culture today: the story of Greek pleasure thus lies both at the heart of antiquity and of the western history and conception of pleasure, and even now continues to resonate down the ages. Oswyn Murray's research on ancient Greek drinking customs, beginning in 1983, ignited a major new field of research in archaeology, art history, Greek literature, and Greek history and established him as an expert in the field. This volume consolidates his unrivalled contribution by gathering together the numerous essays on sympotic subjects that he has written over a span of thirty years, and charting half a lifetime of thought on a theme on which he has had a shaping influence., Symposion is the Greek word for 'drinking together'--the social institution of reclining on couches and enjoying the pleasures of wine, sex, and song. Although the Greeks learned the rituals of communal drinking from the Near East, they turned them into a way of life entirely their own, such that for the male revellers they were elevated into a conception of euphrosyne (bliss), the highest form of pleasure. The symposion became a focal point of Greek aristocratic art and culture in the archaic age, proclaimed in poetry and the visual arts, while its structures affected the Greek attitude to life in all its aspects, from the perception of politics, society, philosophy, and psychology, to attitudes towards sexuality, death, and religion. Even when the symposion began to lose its dominance in the classical democratic city state, it was never abandoned, but continued throughout the Hellenistic age and was transmitted through trade and cultural contact to the Etruscans, the Romans, and throughout the Mediterranean. One of the longest surviving works from antiquity is an encyclopaedia of Greek drinking customs compiled in the third century AD, and we can still trace the remnants of this sympotic culture today: the story of Greek pleasure thus lies both at the heart of antiquity and of the western history and conception of pleasure, and even now continues to resonate down the ages. Oswyn Murray's research on ancient Greek drinking customs, beginning in 1983, ignited a major new field of research in archaeology, art history, Greek literature, and Greek history and established him as an expert in the field. This volume consolidates his unrivalled contribution by gathering together the numerous essays on sympotic subjects that he has written over a span of thirty years, and charting half a lifetime of thought on a theme on which he has had a shaping influence.
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