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Hobden, Fiona
(2009).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286140.013.0024
Abstract
Among other institutions important for displaying and shaping social identity, one thinks particularly of the formalized drinking-party, the sumposion, structured as a microcosm of polis life. This article notes that the symposium provides a safe context for what might otherwise be potentially subversive reflection on the city itself, but also, and at the same time, for the individual's reflection on himself as a member of the city. As it happens, the institution also illustrates in microcosm the way in which the historical polis perpetuates itself as an idea, or ideal of hellenicity: for it is quickly elevated from historical contingency to an enduring literary genre, still alive and well in the period of Roman occupation through writers such as Plutarch and Athenaeus.
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- Book Section
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- 0-19-928614-0, 978-0-19-928614-0
- Keywords
- social identity; formalized drinking-party; symposium; polis life; Plutarch; Athenaeus
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Classical Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
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- Fiona Hobden