In ancient Greek times, the life of male aristocrats was centralized around a single, and the most important, event: the symposium. Nearly every aspect of the aristocrats’ lives revolved around this event, and every step in the young life of a male aristocrat was one further in preparing him for this event and other related future endeavors. The ability of an aristocrat to host a successful and well-attended symposium often reflected on his wealth and societal status. Often times, however, it wasn’t only aristocrats that attended the symposium, and it was not uncommon to find social-marginals, such as hetairai, present at symposia. Occasionally, though their tenets denounced such a lifestyle, cynic philosophers would attend and take part in symposia. In order to understand the conventions of behavior that governed aristocrats, and social marginals, in a symposium, as well as the principles of cynic philosophy, we will analyze the fundamental concepts of an aristocratic lifestyle......

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Title: The Symposium: Staple Of Ancient Greek Society
Approximate Word Count: 1645
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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