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Women's Commensality in the Ancient Greek World

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Joan Burton
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Dining and drinking rituals in the ancient world have been the subject of much recent discussion, and the significance of these rituals, particularly for males, has been extensively studied. Scholars have often slighted the topic of women's part in the history of ancient Greek dining and drinking parties, however, and the broad generalization ‘Citizen women were never present at Greek symposia’ is not uncommon. Admittedly, women other than hetairai, slaves, hired entertainers, etc., are not conspicuous in the evidence from which we must draw our history of ancient Greek symposia. The evidence, however, both written and visual, was created and preserved predominantly by males. Also, the view that there was a fairly narrow participation of women often seems based largely on evidence taken from fifth and fourth century B.C. Athens. Yet the roles of women at Greek dining and drinking partieschanged over time and place. This paper provides a survey, with examples, of the variety of women's dining occasions from the Homeric through to the Hellenistic age. The aim of this survey is to emphasize the value of paying closer attention to the female side of wining and dining in our discussions of occasions of commensality in the ancient Greek world.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , October 1998 , pp. 143 - 165
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48. All-night festivals, considered characteristic of Greek women (see Men, . Dysk. 857)Google Scholar, often included dining and drinking (thus the Thesmophoria, the Haloa, and the Skira, as discussed above). Adonia festivals, like Dionysia, seem also to have encouraged a mixing of social classes. For (fictive) married women attending Adonia hosted by less respectable women, see Men, . Sam. 35–41Google Scholar(a married neighbour woman and her daughter attend a concubine's Adonia); see alsoAlciphron, , Ep. Meret. 14.2–3, 8Google Scholar.

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59. Burkert (n. 40 above), 163 f.

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69. For women presiding over all-women feasts (such as at the Thesmophoria and the Skira), see section 3.

70. As Borgeaud emphasizes, ‘the women are in charge; they make the rules and determine the sequence of events’ (Borgeaud [n. 68 above], 168).

71. For discussion of I. Magn. 215, with attention to the use of the masculine form kataibatai, see Henrichs (n. 56 above), esp. 133–4.

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75. On Gnathaena's treatise, see Ath. 585ab; the title of the treatise here is taken from Gulick (n. 32 above), vol. vi, p. 155 (Ath. 585b).

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78. On the public nature of Arsinoe's Adonia, see Burton (n. 29 above), esp. 134 ff.

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80. N. Robertson, in Slater (n. 1 above), 43.

81. On possible dining arrangements, both separate and joint, for men and women in Demeter's sanctuary at Corinth, see N. Bookidis, in Murray (n. 1 above), 91.

82. For the inscription, with commentary, see Sokolowski, F., Lois sacrées des cités grecques (Paris, 1969), 120 ffGoogle Scholar. (esp. 126, no. 65, lines 95–8); on the inscription's shared sacrificial feast, see Bookidis (n. 81 above), 91; on the inscription's significance, see also Burkert (n. 40 above), 279.

83. As Henrichs notes, ‘By the third century B.C., joint participation in non-maenadic Dionysiac rites by men and women alike must have been the norm rather than an exception’ (Henrichs [n. 66 above], 70).

84. On the presence of women at wedding feasts, see Oakley, J. H. and Sinos, R. H., The Wedding in Ancient Athens (Madison, 1993), 22Google Scholar ff.; Cooper and Morris (n. 12 above), 80 n. 46. On the probable absence of women from the sacrificial feast given during the Apaturia, a festival of the phrateres (clansmen), to mark new marriages, see Parke (n. 37 above), 89–90; for the view that the husband introduced his new wife to his phrateres on this occasion, see Burkert (n. 40 above), 255. Cf. Murray (n. 2 above), 230: ‘There is no evidence to suggest that they [Greek citizen women] even attended wedding feasts and funeral feasts’.

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86. For illustrations, see Oakley and Sinos (n. 84 above).

87. On this citation, see also, e.g., Oakley and Sinos (n. 84 above), 22. For separate couches of men and women at a Greek wedding feast, see too Lucian Convivium 8.

88. See, e.g., Eur, . Iph. Aul. 1036–1079Google Scholar; Ap. Rhod. 4.805–9. See also the visual representations on the François vase and two dinoi of Sophilos (e.g., Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases [London, 1974]Google Scholar, illustrations 24, 25, and 46). For discussion of Sophilos' dinoi, with good pictures, see Williams, D., Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. i (Malibu [Calif.], 1983), esp. 22 ffGoogle Scholar.

89. Gulick (n. 32 above), vol. iii, p. 117.

90. Gomme and Sandbach (n. 67 above), 693.

91. For the inscription, see IG 12.3.330; for a French translation with commentary, see Dareste, R., Haussoullier, B., and Reinach, T., Recueil des inscriptions juridiques grecques, 2d series (Paris, 1898; Rome, 1965), 77 ff.Google Scholar; for discussion, see, e.g., Garland, R., The Greek Way of Death (Ithaca, 1985), 108 ffGoogle Scholar. On the little we know regarding the perideipnon (funeral feast), seeKurtz, D. C. and Boardman, J., Greek Burial Customs (Ithaca, 1971), 146Google Scholar.