The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet

Marek Wecowski is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ancient History, University of Warsaw. His research interests include archaic Greek poetry, early Greek historiography, and archaic and classical Greek history.

• PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; ABBRIEVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: DEFINING THE SYMPOSION; PART TWO: THE SYMPOSION AND HISTORY; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

an important contribution to a growing body of revisionist scholarship on the symposium ... The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, with its wide-ranging new reading of the origins of the symposium and its thought-provoking interpretation of the dynamics of the early Greek community, will surely inspire many more such discussions.