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What the devil is meant by "and coincidentally, parasites."? How were parasites involved in Symposia? I'm rather confused - did they drape tape worms over one another?! Should this be a link to parasites, or not? --Dom 10:52, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Etymology of symposium
Doesn't symposium mean "drink together" not "drink a lot"? Zajonc 17:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, you're right. I got in just slightly ahead of you. The article did say "drink a lot", but I changed it yesterday. Andrew Dalby 20:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Problems
- 1. If we're using the latin translation of συμπόσιον why is it presented as an exclusively Greek affair? Plutarch and Macrobius discuss them, Horace and Petronius satirize them.
- 2. Why conflate the flute-girls who by the late 5th C. were more likely to be professional musicians with the hetaeria? Could it be because this article falsely presents the hetaeria as background props rather than participating symposasts in order to depict the symposium as an almost entirely homosexual gathering?
- 3. The remark about naked servers is, I assume, garnered from the evidence of vase painting. These are not documentary photographs. Twospoonfuls 10:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] March 2007
- I got rid of the LGBT banner till someone can legitimately prove that Greek pederasty is directly related to modern LGBT culture. Matthew Cadrin 03:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
