Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maenad, Euripides, Sparagmos
10 Mar 2016
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A large room facing south for winter sunshine may have been the principal living room. An elaborately decorated room to receive (male) guests. Cement floor was raised slightly all around for the placement of dining couches. The symposium originated in elite society but spread to every part of society. Domestic architecture became dedicated to the facilitation of symposia. The andron has been found throughout greece (with the exception of thasos) in large and small houses, in towns and rural estates. Women"s quarters (gynaikonitis) are mentioned in literary sources, but have not been securely distinguished in archaeological remains. Likely in the second storey (accessed by ladder). It is generally assumed that there was some segregation of the sexes. Described in detail in lysias" speech on the killing of eratosthenes (lysias 1). A speech lysias wrote, but did not present, for euphiletus. Euphiletus is portrayed as a man of modest means.
