Thesiss

This study evaluated the view that Jesus’s communal meals, including the Last Supper, were modeled after a Greek symposium. The underlying prerequisite for this notion is the hypothesis that the Greek symposium was a common format from which all communal meals in the Greco-Roman…

My dissertation is a new comparative study that examines the vital relationships among erotic desire, wine, intoxication, poetry and philosophy in the wine song of the medieval Arab poet Abu Nuwas and the Symposium of Plato. Through a close textual analysis of the figure of wine…