10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYMPOSIAST»
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symposiast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought
A symposiast finishing a draught of (presumably) mixed wine comes face to face
with a rustic, foreign and quasi-Dionysian drinker. It is at this point, when the
symposiast is literally 'in his cup', isolated from the group as he drains the vessel
and ...
2
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in ...
53 Here a symposiast wearing an Oriental sleeved garment holds a donkey-head
vessel. The painter attached a handle and a base (though the Persian holds the
vessel as if it were a handleless version). Hoffmann draws attention to the fact ...
3
Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion: Orality and ...
whilst his companions drink and talk, a symposiast to the far right of a second cup
attributed to the Triptolemus Painter grasps his krotala, hinting at ecstactic and
orgiastic revelry.36 Imbued with signs of ritual, these images project a sympotic ...
André Lardinois, Josine Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel, 2011
4
Dionysos in Archaic Greece: An Understanding Through Images
This was access to the symposium, no longer as a young cupbearer or eromenos
but as a symposiast, equal to the other symposiasts. On the other hand, the
image of the symposiast could be a metaphor for the perfect condition of the ...
Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, 2007
5
Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens
The Villa Giulia stamnos is straightforwardly symmetrical in composition, showing
a flute girl in the center with one symposiast on each side. The Bologna vase is
symmetrical as well in an overall sense, in that the nude youth is in the center, ...
6
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The J. Paul Getty Museum: Fascicule 8
The third symposiast also reclines to left, his right arm raised and bent behind his
head, a skyphos held in the palm of his left hand. Above hangs a covered shield.
Each symposiast wears a himation around his hips and legs. The first has a ...
7
Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
3); the fact that the symposiast also carries a (Greek) footed kantharos suggests
that the bowl is meant to be a libation phiale.53 Not so the vessel held by the
third symposiast, whose Persian-style carinated bowl is also held in the Greek
lateral ...
8
The Temple of Athena at Assos
1 The first symposiast holds out a shallow, handleless bowl, grasping the rim with
his thumb. It also looks as if he secures the bottom by locking his fingers in an
omphalos. Broader than ordinary shallow bowls, the form is closest to a small ...
9
Music and Image in Classical Athens
P15 and pi. 19. Matheson 1995, 284, suggests that the symposiast's gesture
indicates his head "is spinning from too much wine." 35. Korshak 1988. 36.
Korshak 1987 for examples, although she does not have a separate "music"
category.
10
Solon the Athenian, the Poetic Fragments
For instance, Solon may have conceived of his poem as a response to the
anxiety of a symposiast about the future. After all, as remarked by Denniston
1954, 172 the precise object of inceptive 65 “is to give a conversational turn to
the opening ...
Maria Noussia Fantuzzi, 2010
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYMPOSIAST»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
symposiast is used in the context of the following news items.
How to Play an Ancient Greek Drinking Game
... have had couches arranged on almost all four sides of the room, and if you missed the target, you were likely to splatter your fellow symposiast across the way. «Archaeology, Jan 15»
Yogurt means a rich culture
In my first year at Oxford I was such a nervous wreck that another symposiast gave me pills to overcome my anxiety. But here, for the first time, I was totally ... «Hurriyet Daily News, May 13»
Serious Drinking: Vases of the Greek Symposium on View at …
In studying side A of this 4th century B.C. vase, one can readily observe a symposiast's idealized version of himself in the heroic soldiers taking leave of their ... «Art Daily, Sep 08»
