The Symposium

The Symposium depicts an ancient Greek drinking party, or symposium. It was created from a drinking cup that was made in Athens around 500BCE. For more vase animations from the Panoply Vase Animation Project and for more about symposiums, visit . This vase animation was created for Classics in Communities, an organisation based at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Classics which supports the teaching of ancient languages. Athenian black-figure footed cup (kylix) (Ashmolean Museum inv. no. ), c. 500 BCE. Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 This is only free here for educational use. Please do not download or add your logo for redistribution. Please contact us if you have any questions.