After the Wine

After the Wine examines status, coercion, and conspiracy in the Athenian symposium. Beginning with Alcibiades’ disruptive arrival in Plato’s Symposium, the book explores who entered the gathering, who served it, how drinking was organized, and how entertainment, desire, humiliation, and political association shaped the room. Its Mixing-Bowl Circuit Protocol connects the elegant drinking vessel with the labor and unequal relationships surrounding it. The narrative distinguishes literary constructions, ancient testimony, later tradition...