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getting out of hand, but Greek literature and art often indicate that the third-krater limit was not observed. Symposiums are often featured on Attic pottery

The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον, Symposion) is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, dated c. 385 – 370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous

The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a Socratic dialogue written by Xenophon in the late 360s B.C. In it, Socrates and a few of his companions

the term Syriac literature is most commonly used as a shortened designation for Classical Syriac literature, that is written in Classical Syriac language

excellence. Literature and visual arts—for which substantial Ancient Greek and Roman examples existed—did eventually adopt the term "classical" as relating

BC (approximate dates shown). The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC (classical Sumerian). Certain literary texts are difficult to date

Greek. It was intended to serve as a repository for every work of classical Greek literature that could be found. While the transition from city-state to empire

(Ancient Greek: Πόρος, lit. 'Resource', 'Plenty') in Greek classical literature. In Plato's Symposium, Porus was the personification of resourcefulness or expediency

Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-09670-6. Gill, Christopher (1999). The Symposium (Plato). London: Penguin

outcome of marital eros in Sparta was the birth of a healthy boy. In The Symposium by Plato, Aristophanes relays a myth of the origin of both heterosexual