Thursday, December 4, 2003
Libations to Dionysus.
You may, if you like, label this prayer, but it was from our perspective a lot closer to a conga line . . .
Thomas Cahill on the ritual start of a Greek symposium, as described in Sailing the wine-dark sea: Why the Greeks matter, and quoted at All Over the Map. (Thanks, Kenneth!)
Copyright © 2003 by Philocrites | Posted 4 December 2003 at 5:20 PM
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