Komos
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- Note
- The Kōmos (Ancient Greek: κῶμος; pl. kōmoi) was a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revelers in ancient Greece, whose participants were known as komasts (κωμασταί, kōmastaí). Its precise nature has been difficult to reconstruct from the diverse literary sources and evidence derived from vase painting.
The earliest reference to the komos is in Hesiod´s Shield of Herakles, which indicates it took place as part of wedding festivities (line 281). And famously Alcibiades gate-crashes the Symposium while carousing in a komos. However, no one kind of event is associated with the komos: Pindar describes them taking place at the city festivals (Pythian 5.21, 8.20, Olympian 4.9), while Demosthenes mentions them taking place after the pompe and choregoi on the first day of the Greater Dionysia (Speeches 21.10), which may indicate the komos might have been a competitive event.
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Aeneas flieht aus Troja; Komostanz
Das Hauptbild der Vase...
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Image: Archäologisches Museum der WWU Münster - CC BY-NC-SA -
Komos, Musik und Tanz (Kolonettenkrater)
Dieses Weinmischgefäß...
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Image: Museum August Kestner - CC BY-NC-SA -
Komos (Glockenkrater)
In den Kontext des Symposiums...
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Image: Museum August Kestner - CC BY-NC-SA -
Komasten (Skyphos)
Die A- wie auch die B-Seite...
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Image: Museum August Kestner - CC BY-NC-SA
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