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Greek dinner conversation as civilization-through-speech.
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symposium
Greek dinner conversation as civilization-through-speech.
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Glossary
Elite gathering for wine and philosophical conversation about love, death, and meaning.
diagnosis
Athenian fun is conversation, philosophy, and watered wine; Roman fun is vomiting, orgy, and mythic reenactment amid public starvation.
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"...what they really do is they organize dinner parties called symposia. Symposium. And in the symposium, what happens is that people come together and..."
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"This is a famous painting of Alcibiades coming in and having a discussion with everyone. So in Athenian culture, what's important is to be..."
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"So they take these myths. So the death of Lucretia, Musius burning his hand, the rape of the Sabine woman, and they use it..."
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"10 000 people and this is what they do for fun they stage this theater and everyone watches it and the theater plays uh..."
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"in a symposium on love that's what they do for fun guys this is a trial of socrates um so if there's if if..."
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