The Role of Scolions in Symposia

Athanas says there's three types of songs that you sing at a symposium. There's the songs that all the guests sing together and then there's Scalia, which are sung by the most intelligent guests in a random fashion. "Scolion" seems to be where the scolion meaning crooked. And so when I think of people drinking together and singing, it's always like in Boston, all the drunk people swing sweet Caroline," he said.