Libation

Abstract: Histories of pleasure, Oswyn Murray le vin dans une civilization de la biere - la Mesopotamie, Jean Bottero The "Symposium" in ancient Mesopotamia - archaeological evidence, Julian Edgewoth Reade il vino nell 'Antic Egitto, Gabriella Scandone Matthiae wine and death - east and west, Cristiano Grottanelli rite cultuel et rituel social - a propos de manieres de boire le vin dans les cites grecques (Pauline Schmitt Pantel) wine and truth in the greek "Symposium". Wolfgang Rosler wine in old comedy, E.L. Bowie un rituel du vin - la libation, Francoise Liscarrague a symposium of gods?, T.H. Carpenter il banchetto in Italia centrale - quale stile di vita? Annette Rathje simposio e elites sociali nel mondo Etrusco e Italico, Angela Pontrandolfo vino e ideologia nella Roman Arcaica, Filippo Coarelli rituels Romains dans les vignobles, Olivier De Cazanove in vino stuprum, M. Bettini the decoration of Roman "triclina", Roger Ling scenes from the Roman "convivium" - frigida non derit, not derit calda petenti, Katherine M.D. Dunbabin il vino di orazio - nel modus e contro il modus, Antonio La Penna regalis inter mensas laticemque lyacum - wine in Virgil and others, Jasper Griffin le vin et l'honneur, Andre Tchernia heavy drinking and drunkenness in the Roman world - four questions for historians, John H. D'Arms.

Abstract: In this book, Edward Wright Haile provides a highly readable English translation of three ancient Greek plays of the royal House of Atreus. The Oresteia of Aeschylus is the story of the bloody downfall of the royal House of Atreus. The curse which plagued the family for generations was finally lifted from the third generation. Contents: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; Eumenides; Fragments of Proteus Satyrikos.