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The Symposium

The Greek aristocratic drinking party at which reclining men shared mixed wine in measured rounds, with conversation, poetry, music, and games governed by a symposiarch.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Symposium
    Athens · -354
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  3. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  4. Anabasis
    Athens · -354
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  5. Constitution of the Lacedaimonians
    Athens · -354
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  6. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  7. Quaestiones Convivales
    Chaeronea · 120
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  8. Mishnah Pesachim
    Yavneh · 200
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  9. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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