Outlines of a Morphology of Sympotic Entertainment

Abstract

Abstract From the point, more than twenty years ago, when Bruno Gentili led me to reflect, during lively discussion amongst friends, on the importance of the symposion as a privileged occasion for the expression and communication of a considerable part of Archaic and Classical lyric poetry, much time has elapsed, and it would appear not to have been wasted time. In the course of the 1970s, slowly at first, then with growing momentum, in Italy and elsewhere, numerous scholars have turned their attention to the Archaic and Classical symposion, and the results have not been slow to materialize. Today L. E. Rossi-who held, in Oxford in fact, a seminar on the symposion-can write, without causing any particular controversy: ‘I have been persuaded for some time that all Archaic poetry composed for solo delivery, that is to say monodic poetry, was in origin intended for the symposion.

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