What does sympotic mean?
Sympotic means (historical) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(historical) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium..
"Athenaeus, whose Deipnosophistae remains one of our most valuable sources of ancient testimonia about the symposium, apparently had some notion of sympotic reclining as a practice connected to luxruy and moral laxity, but the Athenians do not seem to have shared this view."
Possibly a reminder of Alcibiades' late, drunken arrival in Plato's "Symposium," which had become a convention of sympotic literature.
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Sympotic means (historical) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium..
Common synonyms include symposiac, sympotical.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Athenaeus, whose Deipnosophistae remains one of our most valuable sources of ancient testimonia about the symposium, apparently had some notion of sympotic reclining as a practice connected to luxruy and moral laxity, but the Athenians do not seem to have shared this view."
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