Drinking fest in antiquity, part of a banquet

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A vase-painting: four young men at a symposion. Coloured engraving.

The symposium described in the Symposion of Plato: the drunken Alcibiades enters on the left. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.

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Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party)

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The symposium described in the Symposion of Plato: the drunken Alcibiades enters on the left. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.

A vase-painting: four young men at a symposion. Coloured engraving.