Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet

In The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Broadly defined as a culture-oriented aristocratic banquet, the symposion--which literally means ''drinking together''--was a nocturnal wine party held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great...