Aristotles polis

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Aristotles polis

• koinonia - community
• individual
• household association
• zoon politikon
• beast
• god

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Forms of koinonia

• household koinonia
• deme - village
• polis

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alliance-koinonia

• Book III - p. 120
• polis not koinonia dwelling in same place and
  preventing its members from wrongdoing and
  promoting exchange of goods and services
• these necessary but not sufficient for living well

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polis koinonia

• family groups must occupy same territory and be
  able to intermarry
• thus associations formed of relatives by
  marriage, brotherhoods, family reunions for
  sacrifices to the gods, and other ways of social
  intercourse

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Koinoniai 1

• polis - deme - household
• polis-wide
• tribes - ten phylai
• phratry
• brotherhood
• annual festival - Apatouria
• Athena Phratria
• Zeus Phratrios
• male rites of passage

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Koinoniai 2

• Others - common elements
• cult focus
• ownership of property for common benefit
• constitution, officers, mini-assembly
• feasting and drinking

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Koinoniai 3

• gennêtai - aristocratic religious groups
• gymnasia sporting groups
• burial associations
• trade associations
• philosophical schools
• also exclusive female koinoniai

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Law for koinoniai

• If a deme or phratry or worshippers of heroes or
  gennêtai or drinking groups or funerary clubs or
  religious guilds or pirates or traders make rules
  among themselves, these shall be valid unless
  they conflict with public law.

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Symposium

• drinking together
• not kômos
• formality
• symposiarch
• rules

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Dionysos

• For sensible men I prepare only three kraters
  one for health (which they drink first), the
  second for love and pleasure, and the third for
  sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men
  go home. The fourth krater is not mine any more -
  it belongs to bad behavior the fifth is for
  shouting the sixth is for rudeness and insults
  the seventh is for fights the eighth is for
  breaking the furniture the ninth is for
  depression the tenth is for madness and
  unconsciousness.

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Equipment

• couches (klinê), tables, footstools
• wine - amphora
• water - hydria
• mixing-bowl - krater or stamnos
• cooler - psykter
• pitchers - oinochoe
• drinking-cups - kylix, kantharos

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Program

• andron
• platforms for klinai
• stone floor
• garlands
• singing - barbitos, aulos
• kottabos
• flute-girls, flute-boys
• hetaira, hetairai

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