as a kottabos player. The inscription beside her is Doric, the dialect used by the Sicilians. As Antiphanes wrote in his play: "the kottabos player...
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McGee and appeared three times a year. The name "Kottabos" was taken from the Greek drinking game Kottabos. Robert Yelverton Tyrrell was the first editor-in-chief...
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in competitive entertainments. A game sometimes played at symposia was kottabos, in which players swirled the dregs of their wine in a kylix, a platter-like...
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Banqueters playing Kottabos and girl playing the aulos, Greece (c. 420 BCE). Banqueting and music have continued to be two important entertainments since...
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lyrics and poems in magazines since entering Trinity College, especially in Kottabos and the Dublin University Magazine. In mid-1881, at 27 years old, he published...
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publish newspapers and magazines. From 1869 to 1893 the literary magazine Kottabos was published, edited by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell. It has been called 'perhaps...
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This painting, on the inside of a kylix, depicts a hetaira playing kottabos, a drinking game played at symposia in which the participants flicked the dregs...
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tradition inspired by the use of the Greek banquet. Banqueters playing Kottabos while a musician plays the Aulos, decorated by the artist 'Nicias'/'Nikias'...
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been banned at some institutions, particularly colleges and universities. Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games from ancient Greece, dated...
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High jinks Horserace Ice luge Icing Kastenlauf Keg stand Kings Kinito Kottabos Liar's dice Matchbox Neknominate Never have I ever Pass-Out Patruni e sutta...
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in honor of Dionysus, followed by conversation or table games, such as kottabos. The guests would recline on couches (κλίναι klínai); low tables held the...
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in 1871. From 1869 he became the first editor of the literary magazine Kottabos. He also founded the "more solemn academic journal" Hermathena in 1873...
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College Dublin. As an undergraduate he contributed to the literary magazine Kottabos, starting in 1869. His first poem appeared in the Dublin University Magazine...
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This painting, on the inside of a kylix, depicts a hetaira playing kottabos, a drinking game played at symposia in which the participants flicked the dregs...
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frequent component at the symposium, which sometimes included the game of kottabos, which involved flinging lees from a wine cup towards a target. The medicinal...
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Oxford Solar Myth, A Contribution to Comparative Mythology" in: Echoes from Kottabos, London (1906), 279–290 for a satire on this effect. notably ciriticized...
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contribution to Kottabos, entitled "Oxford Solar Myth. A Contribution to Comparative Mythology" gets a special mention in Echoes from Kottabos by Robert Yelverton...
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with minimal risk of spilling. The handles allowed the guests to play kottabos, where a guest would put their right index finger into one of the handles...
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drink. The northern wall shows one guest on the leftmost couch engaging in kottabos, an ancient game of tossing wine from a cup at a target. On the rightmost...
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In 1876 'Willie' published several of his poems in the College magazine Kottabos, which he also edited. After graduating from Trinity College Willie Wilde...
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n'a jamais existé, ou Grand erratum. Littledale, Richard (1870). "The Oxford Solar Myth". Kottabos: A College Miscellany. 5 (Michaelmas Term): 145–154....
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degree in 1871. At Trinity he also contributed to the literary magazine Kottabos. In 1870 (one year prior to his DM) he became a Professor of English Literature...
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1893 he published his first known work, a poem influenced by Wordsworth, Kottabos: A College Miscellany. After graduating, Synge moved to Germany to study...
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cottabomancy/cottobomancy /ˈkɒtəboʊmænsi/: by wine in a brass bowl (Greek kottabos, cottabus + manteía, prophecy) craniognomy /ˌkreɪniˈɒɡnoʊmi/ or /ˌkreɪniˈɒnəmi/...
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important part of their lives. Herodotus recounts their many games: dice, kottabos, ball (episkyros or harpastum), Phersu, Askôliasmos, and borsa. The Etruscans...
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and at Trinity College, Dublin. He contributed to the literary magazine Kottabos. He had a distinguished career, becoming president of the Philosophical...
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to lexicographer Menos Filintas (Μένος Φιλήντας) their name comes from kottabos; according to the Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation it derives from the...
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to lexicographer Menos Filintas (Μένος Φιλήντας) their name comes from kottabos; according to the Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation it derives from the...
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prostitutes entertained guests. On the left, a hetaira plays the drinking game kottabos; on the right, a flute player (who often provided sexual services in addition...
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Bacchante Chalcomede. Aphrodite sends Aglaia to fetch Eros, who is playing kottabos with Hymenaeus. In exchange for a chaplet made by Hephaestus, Eros agrees...
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