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The World Underfoot - Mosaics and Metaphor in the Greek Symposium (Hardcover)
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The World Underfoot - Mosaics and Metaphor in the Greek Symposium (Hardcover)
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In the Greek Classical period, the symposium-the social gathering
at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in
conversation-was held in a room called the andron. From couches set
up around the perimeter, symposiasts looked inward to the room's
center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These
mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with
images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts,
hunting parties, or the spectre of Dionysos: the god of wine,
riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. In The World
Underfoot, Hallie M. Franks takes as her subject these mosaics and
the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the
sociology and anthropology of space, she presents an innovative new
interpretation of the mosaic imagery as an active contributor to
the symposium as a metaphorical experience. Franks argues that the
images on mosaic floors, combined with the ritualized circling of
the wine cup and the physiological reaction to wine during the
symposium, would have called to mind other images, spaces, or
experiences, and in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the
symposium as another kind of event-a nautical voyage, a journey to
a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the
luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge
the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the
symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the
Greek polis.
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