Even more worthy of emphasis, however, is the importance of the symposium as an institution that permitted citizens to gather, to transact business, and-as Plato's dialogue makes clear-to engage in serious discussion. For over a century, representations on vases document that wine, women, and song were central ingredients. Obverse, Hephaistos on mule among satyrs and maenads Reverse, Dionysos among satyrs and maenads The symposium, conventionally interpreted as a drinking party, was a well-established feature of Greek-particularly Athenian- society.
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