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Ancient Gr**** art the
kynodesme was worn by some athletes, actors, poets,
symposiasts and komasts. It was worn
temporarily while in
public and
could be taken...
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competitively with one
symposiast reciting the
first part of a song and
another expected to
improvise the end of it.
Symposiasts might also
compete in...
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Roman triumph, and the
olive wreath the
prize at the
Olympic Games.
Symposiasts wore
crowns of roses,
while maenads and
other followers of
Dionysus wore...
- Many kynodesmē are
depicted on vases,
almost exclusively confined to
symposiasts and komasts, who are as a
general rule
older (or at
least mature) men...
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contrasting (not
necessarily opposing)
views on that topic.
Honoraria for the
symposiasts are
funded at an
adjusted rate
based on the
current size of the endowment...
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different kind of target. On a red-figure cup by Apollodoros, it
shows some
symposiasts aiming at a
target with a phallus-headed bird
balancing on top of a tripod...
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symposiarch should be able to
diagnose the
degree of
inebriation of his
fellow symposiasts and make sure that the
symposium progressed smoothly and
without drunken...
- have been suggested:
primarily teacher, priestess,
chorus leader, and
symposiast. However, the
performance contexts of many of Sappho's
fragments are not...
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direction of the diver's leap
would land him in the
raised cup of the
symposiasts playing kottabos on the
northern wall,
whose tossed wine
would then land...
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speakers on the
history of
Russian food.
There was a
session in
which symposiasts attempted, but failed, to
devise a test for
distinguishing bogus from...
