Classically intoxicated: correlations between quantity of alcohol consumed and alcohol related problems in a classical Greek text

The authors of "Classical Intoxication" are to be thanked for a
"sober" account of one aspect of the classical Greek symposium, glimpsed
through the work of [Eubulus]. Reconstructing a "typical" symposium from
the extensive ancient sources is a huge challenge, and needs input not
only from playwrights, but from other categories of literary sources such
as those typically referred to as peri methes ("concerning drunkenness")
and the symposion ("symposium") literature.

Upon completion of the task of reconstructing the stages of
intoxication at a typical symposium, one must then move downmarket,
socially-speaking, to consider, for example, accounts of less
sophisticated ancient drinking gatherings such as komoi ("revels"). This
would probably yield a wider and more nuanced list of terms designating
the stages of intoxication, as described across the ancient social strata.

I am working in this area, would welcome dialogue with the authors,
and can be reached at steve.thompson@avondale.edu.au

Competing interests:
Currently writing a monograph on Graeco-Roman attitudes toward, and beliefs about, wine and drinking.