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When playing kottabos kataktos, also called kottabos with a pole, the target is the plastinx (πλάστιγξ), a small disc, balanced horizontally atop a bronze lamp stand. Halfway down the stand is a larger disc called the manes (μάνης). Sometimes a bronze statuette is used, with the plastinx balanced on its extended arms, or on its head.
Kottabos was an Irish literary magazine, published from 1869 to 1893 at Trinity College, Dublin. Over the years many authors contributed to the journal, like Edward Dowden , Alfred Perceval Graves and Oscar Wilde , who had early work published in it, during his period at Trinity. [ 1 ]
Drinking games were enjoyed in ancient China, usually incorporating the use of dice or verbal exchange of riddles. [3]: 145 During the Tang dynasty (618–907), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player ...
The Bryn Mawr Painter was named by Sir John Beazley for a plate in the Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections (the Bryn Mawr Painter's namepiece). [2]Interior: A reclining male figure, draped from the waist down, leans against a doubled-over bolster.
Ameipsias (Ancient Greek: Ἀμειψίας, fl. late 5th century BC) of Athens was an Ancient Greek comic poet, a contemporary of Aristophanes, whom he twice bested in the dramatic contests.
This painting, on the inside of a kylix, depicts a hetaira playing kottabos, a drinking game played at symposia in which the participants flicked the dregs of their wine at a target. Gnathaena (Ancient Greek: Γνάθαινα) was an Athenian hetaira (plural: hetairai), a class of ancient Greek prostitutes who were companions to wealthy men. [1]
As an undergraduate he contributed to the literary magazine Kottabos, starting in 1869. [1] His first poem appeared in the Dublin University Magazine in 1863. [2] He graduated with a Master of Arts degree. [3] In 1869, he entered the Civil Service as clerk in the British Home Office, where he remained until he became an Inspector of Schools in ...
Kottabos player flinging wine-dregs (Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC) Poetry and music were central to the pleasures of the symposium. Although free women of status did not attend symposia, high-class female prostitutes ( hetairai ) and entertainers were hired to perform, consort, and converse with the guests.