The Symposium: How To Party Like An Ancient Greek
The Ancients
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Luxuries in the Ancient Greek World
Luxury and the possession of luxuries was actually quite a thorny issue for ancients athens. The symposium seems to be a bit of a space where people were allowed to display a bit of luxury. But again, there were lines so if you did turn up with your silver and gold vessels in athens, you'd probably be looked on a bit suspiciously as being not really properly fully athenian. If we were in macedon, in northern greece, if you didn't have your silver andgold vessels, you were no onei So little bit of a variety there in termns of how luxury was viewed and interpreted and accepted or not as part
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