Fiona Hobden is a Senior Lecturer in Greek Culture at the University of Liverpool, where she teaches courses on various aspects of ancient Greek cultural history, including politics, gender and religion. Her current research focuses primarily on the symposion, but she is also interested in representations of the past and the present in Classical Athens, in ancient and modern responses to the Athenian cityscape and in history represented on television.

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• Introduction: talking about the symposion; 1. Metasympotics; 2. Ethnopoieia and ēthopoieia; 3. Politics in performance; 4. Politics in action; 5. Symposion and Symposium; Conclusion: the rhetorics of the symposion.

Fiona Hobden is a Senior Lecturer in Greek Culture at the University of Liverpool, where she teaches courses on various aspects of ancient Greek cultural history, including politics, gender and religion. Her current research focuses primarily on the symposion, but she is also interested in representations of the past and the present in Classical Athens, in ancient and modern responses to the Athenian cityscape and in history represented on television.

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• Introduction: talking about the symposion; 1. Metasympotics; 2. Ethnopoieia and ēthopoieia; 3. Politics in performance; 4. Politics in action; 5. Symposion and Symposium; Conclusion: the rhetorics of the symposion.