{"id":32569,"date":"2021-04-01T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32569"},"modified":"2021-04-01T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:00:33","slug":"word-of-the-day-668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/01\/word-of-the-day-668\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Symposium<\/em>:<\/p>\n

an occasion at which people who have great knowledge of a particular subject meet in order to discuss a matter of interest:
\na symposium<\/em> on European cinema [Cambridge University<\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “A Toast to Ancient Greek Wine Drinking<\/em><\/a>,” Professor Kathleen M. Lynch, Archaeology Abridged \u2013 Short Lectures<\/em>, Archaeological Institute of America<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

The ancient Greeks took their wine drinking seriously. The symposium was a drinking party for men with rules and expectations. They kept the group small so that all could participate in a single conversation, and the wine flowed, but watered down so that the drinkers stood on the edge of tipsy and drunk. Naturally, a formal drinking event needed special equipment, and in fact the symposium inspired the creation of the majority of ancient Greek pottery shapes. We will consider the importance of a \u201cset\u201d of pottery, its decoration, and the role this peculiar group drinking event played in the social life of ancient Athens. We will peer into the cupboards of a late Archaic house from downtown Athens to see the symposium in action. Feel free to bring a glass of wine!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, golly. Maybe if I’d known about the wine I’d have tried to make a few symposia back in the college days. That sounds like a lot more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Symposium: an occasion at which people who have great knowledge of a particular subject meet in order to discuss a matter of interest: a symposium on European cinema [Cambridge University] Noted in “A Toast to Ancient Greek Wine Drinking,” Professor Kathleen M. Lynch, Archaeology Abridged \u2013 Short Lectures, Archaeological Institute \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32570,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32569\/revisions\/32570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}