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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.
[1] and a "Symposium scene with youths.". [1] Interior of an Attic cup. Artist; Painter from Colmar. Around 500 - 450 BCE. Louvre Museum Symposium scene. Attic kylix. Around 460-450 BCE. In classical antiquity, writers such as Herodotus, [2] Plato, [3] Xenophon, [4] Athenaeus [5] and many others explored aspects of homosexuality in Greek society.
It was used as a wine cooler, and specifically as part of the elite sympotic set in the ancient Greek symposium. The psykter , as distinct from other coolers, is a vase which has a mushroom-shaped body, and was produced for only a short period of time during the late-sixth to mid-fifth centuries, with almost all of this type dating to between ...
The Tomb of the Diver in the former Greek colony of Paestum, Italy is known for its well-preserved frescos showing an ancient Greek symposium.These frescos appear to be the only surviving examples of Greek painting from the Orientalizing, Archaic, or Classical periods.
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]
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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 ...
Aeschines and Socrates in Raphael's The School of Athens Pietro Testa's etching of the Symposium (1648) The Apotheosis of Homer (1827) The Death of Socrates (1787) Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca (3rd century AD) The School of Athens (c. 1511) Socrates (c. 1950) Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades (1660s) Symposium (Feuerbach) (1869)