The Symposium: How To Party Like An Ancient Greek
The Ancients
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The Slavery of Ancient Athens
There was a very famous and popular, ancient drinking game at the simplestn called cottabos. If you had some dregs of wine in your drinking cup, you sort of swirled them round and flicked them to try and hit a target. Slaves offasthe having to pour all the wine out in the first place. We must never forget that even the fabled democracy of ancient athens was a political system entirely based on slaver. Some of the images we have are of slaves sort of supporting their masters who are pretty ill, on the way home from a symposium. And i guess, was there that freedom there?
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