The Symposium in Context

The Symposium in Context

Author: Kathleen M. Lynch

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1621390055

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This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery also reflects purchasing patterns and thematic preferences of the homeowner. The multifaceted approach adopted in this book shows that meaning and use are inherently related, and that through archaeology one can restore a context of use for a class of objects frequently studied in isolation.


The Symposium in Context

The Symposium in Context

Author: Kathleen M. Lynch

Publisher: ASCSA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0876615469

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This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery also reflects purchasing patterns and thematic preferences of the homeowner. The multifaceted approach adopted in this book shows that meaning and use are inherently related, and that through archaeology one can restore a context of use for a class of objects frequently studied in isolation. Winner of the 2013 James R. Wiseman Book Award given by the Archaeological Institute of America.


The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium

The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium

Author: Kathryn Topper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1107011027

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This book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present.


Early Adulthood in a Family Context

Early Adulthood in a Family Context

Author: Alan Booth

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-12-10

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1461414350

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Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This volume showcases new theoretical, methodological, and measurement insights in hopes of advancing understanding of the influence of the family of origin on young adults' lives. Both family resources and constraints with respect to economic, social, and human capital are considered.


The World Underfoot

The World Underfoot

Author: Hallie M. Franks

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0190863188

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In the Greek Classical period, the symposium--the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation--was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter, symposiasts looked inward to the room's center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the spectre of Dionysos: the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. In The World Underfoot, Hallie M. Franks takes as her subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, she presents an innovative new interpretation of the mosaic imagery as an active contributor to the symposium as a metaphorical experience. Franks argues that the images on mosaic floors, combined with the ritualized circling of the wine cup and the physiological reaction to wine during the symposium, would have called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event--a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.


Location- and Context-Awareness

Location- and Context-Awareness

Author: Jeffrey Hightower

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-09-14

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 3540751602

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness, LoCA 2007, held in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, in September 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on wifi location technology, activity and situational awareness, taxonomies, architectures, and in a broader perspective, the meaning of place, radio issue in location technology, and new approaches to location estimation.


Plato's Symposium

Plato's Symposium

Author: Pierre Destrée

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107525696

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Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' - which can refer both to physical desire or desire for happiness. They reveal thematic continuities between the prologue and the various speeches as well as between the speeches themselves, and present a rich collection of contrasting yet complementary readings of Diotima's speech. The volume will be invaluable for classicists and philosophers alike, and for all who are interested in one of Plato's most fascinating and challenging dialogues.


Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts

Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts

Author: Nancy C. Lee

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1589833570

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Personal tragedy and communal catastrophe up to the present day are universal human experiences that call forth lament. Lament singers--from the most ancient civilizations to traditional oral poets to the biblical psalmists and poets of Lamentations to popular singers across the globe--have always raised the cry of human suffering, giving voice to the voiceless, illuminating injustice, or pleading for divine help. This volume gathers an international collection of essays on biblical lament and Lamentations, illuminating their genres, artistry, purposes, and significant place in the history and theologies of ancient Israel. It also explores lament across cultures, both those influenced by biblical traditions and those not, as the practices of composition, performance, and interpretation of life's suffering continue to shed light on our knowledge of biblical lament. --From publisher's description.


Plato's Symposium

Plato's Symposium

Author: Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0199567816

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Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.


Callimachus in Context

Callimachus in Context

Author: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1107378346

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Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small voice, pure waters; the Greek version emphasizes a learned scholar who includes literary criticism within his poetry, an encomiast of the Ptolemies, a poet of the book whose narratives are often understood as metapoetic. This study aims to situate these Callimachuses within a series of interlocking historical and intellectual contexts in order better to understand how they arose. In this narrative of his poetics and poetic reception four main sources of creative opportunism are identified: Callimachus' reactions to philosophers and literary critics as arbiters of poetic authority, the potential of the text as a venue for performance, awareness of Alexandria as a new place, and finally, his attraction for Roman poets.