Symposium (ancient Greece)
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In Ancient Greece, the symposium was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation. Literary works that
A symposium scene on a fresco in the Tomb of the Diver from the Greek colony of Paestum, in Italy, 480–470 BC
A female aulos-player entertains men at a symposium on this Attic red-figure bell-krater, c. 420 BC.
Plato's Symposium, depiction by Anselm Feuerbach
Banquet scene from a Temple of Athena (6th century BC relief)
Tomb of the Diver
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The Tomb of the Diver, now in the museum at Paestum, Italy, is a frescoed tomb that dates to around 500 to 475 BCE, and is famous for the mysterious subject matter of the ceiling fresco, a lone diver
Symposium (ancient Greece)
…A symposium scene on a fresco in the Tomb of the Diver from the Greek colony of Paestum, in Italy, 480–470 BC A female aulos-player entertains men at a symposium on this Attic red-figure bell-krater, c. 420…
Detail from the underside of the top slab of the grave, showing a man diving into waves .
East Wall with Krater Kantharos
Palmette decoration from ceiling
Tomb of the Palmettes