Vanessa Cazzato read for her doctorate in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.Dirk Obbink is Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Student of Christ Church.Enrico Emanuele Prodi read for his doctorate in Classics at Merton College, Oxford, and is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church. He is now working on the project ASAGIP: Ancient scholarship on archaic Greek iambic poetry, at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

This volume reminds us of just how many angles there are to studying the symposion, just how many methodologies, just how many media, and just how many time periods. It will undoubtedly galvanise more nuanced future research which will takes up the challenge of working across disciplines.

• Vanessa Cazzato and Enrico Emanuele Prodi: Introduction: Continuity in the Sympotic Tradition 1: Oswyn Murray: The Symposion between East and West 2: Ewen Bowie: Quo usque tandem...? How Long Were Sympotic Songs? 3: Gauthier Liberman: Some Thoughts of the Symposiastic Catena, Aisakos, and Skolia 4: Giovan Battista D'Alessio: Bacchylides at Banquet 5: Lucia Athanassaki: The Symposion as Theme and Performance Context in Pindar's Epinicians 6: Guy Hedreen: Smikros: Fictional Portrait of an Artist as a Symposiast by Euphronios 7: Ralph M. Rosen: Symposia and the Formation of Poetic Genre in Aristophanes' Wasps 8: Deborah T. Steiner: Parting Shots: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1384 98 and Symposia in the Visual Repertoire 9: Vanessa Cazzato: Symposia en plein air in Alcaeus and Others 10: Renaud Gagné: The World in a Cup: Ekpomatics in and out of the Symposion 11: Alexander Sens: Party or Perish: Death, Wine, and Closure in Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram 12: Gregory O. Hutchinson: Hierarchy and Symposiastic Poetry, Greek and Latin

Vanessa Cazzato read for her doctorate in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.Dirk Obbink is Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Student of Christ Church.Enrico Emanuele Prodi read for his doctorate in Classics at Merton College, Oxford, and is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church. He is now working on the project ASAGIP: Ancient scholarship on archaic Greek iambic poetry, at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

This volume reminds us of just how many angles there are to studying the symposion, just how many methodologies, just how many media, and just how many time periods. It will undoubtedly galvanise more nuanced future research which will takes up the challenge of working across disciplines.

• Vanessa Cazzato and Enrico Emanuele Prodi: Introduction: Continuity in the Sympotic Tradition 1: Oswyn Murray: The Symposion between East and West 2: Ewen Bowie: Quo usque tandem...? How Long Were Sympotic Songs? 3: Gauthier Liberman: Some Thoughts of the Symposiastic Catena, Aisakos, and Skolia 4: Giovan Battista D'Alessio: Bacchylides at Banquet 5: Lucia Athanassaki: The Symposion as Theme and Performance Context in Pindar's Epinicians 6: Guy Hedreen: Smikros: Fictional Portrait of an Artist as a Symposiast by Euphronios 7: Ralph M. Rosen: Symposia and the Formation of Poetic Genre in Aristophanes' Wasps 8: Deborah T. Steiner: Parting Shots: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1384 98 and Symposia in the Visual Repertoire 9: Vanessa Cazzato: Symposia en plein air in Alcaeus and Others 10: Renaud Gagné: The World in a Cup: Ekpomatics in and out of the Symposion 11: Alexander Sens: Party or Perish: Death, Wine, and Closure in Hellenistic Sympotic Epigram 12: Gregory O. Hutchinson: Hierarchy and Symposiastic Poetry, Greek and Latin