Sympotic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sympotic is an adjective meaning (historical) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.
Meaning
(historical) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.
Example Sentences
Possibly a reminder of Alcibiades' late, drunken arrival in Plato's "Symposium," which had become a convention of sympotic literature.
"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."
Synonyms for sympotic
Depending on context, synonyms include symposiac, sympotical.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include symposiac, symposiacal, symposial, symposiastic, symphisian, symphilous.
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