The syssitia (Ancient Greek: συσσίτια syssítia, plural of συσσίτιον syssítion) were, in ancient Greece, common meals for men and youths in social or religious...

after the dual monarchy), the imposition of the Spartan mess halls called syssitia, the redistribution of land to each citizen by head, Spartan austerity...

amount of what they yielded from their kleros to their syssitia, or mess. These donations to the syssitia were a requirement for every Spartan citizen. All...

Spartan hegemony (404-371 BC). A certain income was required to maintain syssitia membership, and thus Spartiate status. Rising inequality within the tiny...

military training, called the agoge, and who were members in good standing of syssitia (mess hall), were eligible. Usually, the only people eligible to receive...

Deipnosophists (Banquet of the Learned) of Athenaeus. The syssitia (τὰ συσσίτια tà syssítia) were mandatory meals shared by social or religious groups...

boys' clothes daily to ensure that they fit. The ephors had their own syssitia, the common meal of Spartan citizens. Only 67 ephors are known by name...

general sense, ranging from "club leader" to "master of the tables" at syssitia to "Roman governor".[citation needed] In Athens, a system of three concurrent...

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of impoverished Spartiates. Mothakes were not able to contribute to the syssitia, the core civic daily institution for citizens, and thus were not allowed...

innovated the Gerousia, the Ephorate, the Enomotiae, the Triacades and the Syssitia. Herodotus does not mention the oracle in the second report. The associated...

such as cowardice in battle or the inability to pay for membership in the syssitia. Failure to pay became such an increasingly severe problem because commercial...

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such as Sparta. Aristotle also describes a Carthaginian equivalent to the syssitia, communal meals that were the mark of citizenship and social class in Greek...

from each member eating at the Spartan mess (syssitia) to purchase the pigs at the market. The mess (syssitia) was a membership-based institution that Spartan...

as citizens often got into debts to pay for their contribution to the syssitia, and many had lost their status when the burden became too high. redistribution...

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they made them to dance low dances, and sing ridiculous songs..." during syssitia (obligatory banquets). However, he notes that this rough treatment was...

instead they were expected to live communally with other members of their syssitia. Due to the husband's absence, women were expected to run the household...

mesoparasite, parasite, parasitic, parasitism, parasitoid, sitology, syssitia siz- hiss Greek σίζω, σίξις (síxis) smaragd- emerald Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos)...

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common interest or goal Hetairia or Andreia, the Cretan terms for Doric Syssitia (common meals) Hetaireios, an epithet of Zeus Filiki Eteria, a secret 19th...

were organised earlier in the period. Hetair-, a Greek linguistic root Syssitia Azoria, Crete (possible 6th-century BC andreion recovered in excavations...

the criteria –the mandatory contribution to the communal mess hall, the Syssitia– anymore, or who had lost it or had never gotten it in the first place...

000 after the Battle of Leuctra in 371, due to increasingly unattainable syssitia wealth requirements for citizenship. In Plato's Laws, Clinias the Cretan...

agela, they partook of the public meals for men, the andreia (Laconian syssitia). These institutions were afterwards preserved in only a few states of...

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mesoparasite, parasite, parasitic, parasitism, parasitoid, sitology, syssitia siz- hiss Greek σίζω, σίξις (síxis) smaragd- emerald Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos)...