The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style: Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017 - Hardcover
by Oswyn Murray
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Availability:In StockContributor:Oswyn Murray, Vanessa Cazzato (Editor)Publish date:2018-09-26Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198814627ISBN-10:198814623UPC:9780198814627Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, AncientSize:9.80 x 7.00 x 1.40 inchesWeight:2.8021Product ID:SC3CAYHDJT
The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style: Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017
Symposion is the Greek word for 'drinking together'--the social institution of reclining on couches and enjoying the pleasures of wine, sex, and song. Although the Greeks learned the rituals of communal drinking from the Near East, they turned them into a way of life entirely their own, such that for the male revellers they were elevated into a conception of euphrosyne (bliss), the highest form...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198814627ISBN-10:198814623UPC:9780198814627Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, AncientSize:9.80 x 7.00 x 1.40 inchesWeight:2.8021Product ID:SC3CAYHDJT
Oswyn Murray, Emeritus Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford Oswyn Murray is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He studied under the great scholar Arnaldo Momigliano before taking up a research position at the Warburg Institute and becoming successively, between 1968 and 2004, Tutor, Senior Tutor, vice-Master, and Director of the Graduate Centre at Balliol. He is the author of Early Greece...
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