"Delivered at a symposium at McMaster University in September of 1989"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / William J. Slater -- Oriental symposia : contrasts and parallels / Walter Burkert -- The betrothal symposium in early Greece / Noel Robertson -- Foreigners at the Greek symposium? / Maragret Miller -- War and the symposium / Oswyn Murray -- The age for reclining and its attendant perils / Alan Booth -- Triclinium and stibadium / Katherine M.D. Dunbabin -- The symposium in Roman elegy / John C. Yardley -- Symposia and deipna in Plutarch's Lives and in other historical writings / George Paul -- Slaves at Roman convivia / John H. D'Arms -- Dinner theater / Christopher P. Jones -- Convivium and villa in late antiquity / Jeremy Rossiter.