symposium
(noun)
In ancient Graeco-Roman culture, a drinking party.
(noun)
(in ancient Greece) A drinking party, especially one with intellectual discussion.
Examples of symposium in the following topics:
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Pop Art
- New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on Pop Art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for "capitulating" to consumerism.
- This symposium set the tone for Warhol's reception.
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Painting in the Greek High Classical Period
- The tomb depicts a symposium scene on its walls and an image of diver on the inside of the covering slab.
- The bodies of the men at the symposium more accurately demonstrate an Archaic reliance on line to model the form of the body and the draping of their clothing.
- This is the symposium scene painted on the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum.
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Etruscan Tombs
- This image depicts men and women with servants at a symposium.