Chapter
Sumposion
Abstract
Much of our evidence for sexuality in ancient Greece stems from one particular setting: the sumposion-the Greek banquet. The sumposion arose in the archaic period (750-480 BCE), along with the polis, and it is crucial to ask what relationship it had to the city. Eva Stehle has emphasized the way in which the sumposion likewise constructed its convivial society in systematic contradistinction to the world of kinship, marriage, and the household. …
Authors
Corner S
Book title
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities
Pagination
pp. 203-217
Publication Date
January 1, 2013
DOI
10.1002/9781118610657.ch12