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Plato's Symposium, depiction by Anselm Feuerbach Banquet scene from a Temple of Athena (6th century BC relief). The Greek symposium was a key Hellenic social institution. It was a forum for the progeny of respected families to debate, plot, boast, or simply to revel with others.
This older man would educate the youth in the ways of Greek life and the responsibilities of adulthood. [9] [10] The rite of passage undergone by Greek youths in the tribal prehistory of Greece evolved into the commonly known form of Greek pederasty after the rise of the city-state, or polis. Greek boys no longer left the confines of the ...
Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods. Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-22367-6. Lear, Andrew. 'Ancient Pederasty: an introduction' in A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, editor Thomas K. Hubbard (Blackwell, 2014), pp. 102–27. Nussbaum, Martha. Sex and Social Justice. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Diotima of Mantinea (/ ˌ d aɪ ə ˈ t iː m ə /; Greek: Διοτίμα; Latin: Diotīma) is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek character in Plato's dialogue Symposium, possibly an actual historical figure, indicated as having lived circa 440 B.C.
Agathon (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə θ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἀγάθων; c. 448 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416. [1]
Nov. 1—Photographers view the world with the brain of an adult and the curiosity of a child, photographer and educator Tony Chirinos says. "There was an amazing curator who says that ...
During a symposium, it was customary to serve three successive bowls of wine, where libations from the first bowl were usually dedicated either to the Olympians or to Agathos Daimon, libations from the second were usually dedicated to the heroes of Greek myth and libations from the third bowl were dedicated either to Zeus Teleios or to Hermes.
Greek hetaira and her client, approx. 430 BC. The fact that she is on the couch with him is telling, as wives were not allowed into the symposium.. A hetaira (/ h ɪ ˈ t aɪ r ə /; Ancient Greek: ἑταίρα, lit.