"Delivered at a symposium at McMaster University in September of 1989"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Oriental symposia : contexts and parallels / Walter Burkert -- The betrothal symposium in early Greece / Noel Robertson -- Foreigners at the Greek symposium? / Margaret Miller -- War and the symposium / Oswyn Murray -- The age for reclining and its attendant perils / Alan Booth -- Triclinium and Stibadium / Katherine M.D. Dunbabin -- The symposium in Roman elegy / John C. Yardley -- Symposia and Deipna in Plutarch's Lives and in other historical writings / George Paul -- Slaves at Roman convivia / John H. D'Arms -- Dinner theater / Christopher P. Jones -- Convivium and villa in Late Antiquity / Jeremy Rossiter.
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