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symposium
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Symposium
In
ancient Greece
, the
symposium
(
symposion
, from συμπίνειν
sympinein
, "to drink together") was a drinking party. Literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two
Socratic dialogues
,
Plato
's
Symposium
and
Xenophon
's
Symposium
, as well as a number of
Greek poems
such as the
elegies
of
Theognis of Megara
. Symposia are depicted in
Greek
and
Etruscan art
that shows similar scenes.
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