virtual-artifacts:Statuettes of Three Banqueters, Northern Greece 550-525 BC. The symposium was a ma
virtual-artifacts:Statuettes of Three Banqueters, Northern Greece 550-525 BC. The symposium was a main institution of aristocratic Greek life. Not merely a party in the modern sense of the word, these all-male events often had a strong ritual aspect, indoctrinating and reinforcing the values of Greek society among their participants. Free women did not take part in symposia, although female slaves and courtesans provided entertainment. -- source link
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