contrast with gendered Greek drinking parties. As with many other Greek customs, the aesthetic framework of the symposium was adopted by the Romans under the name of comissatio. These revels also involved the drinking of assigned quantities of wine, and the oversight of a master of the ceremonies appointed for the occasion from among the guests. Another Roman version of the symposium was the convivium. Women's role differed in Roman symposia as well. Roman women were legally prohibited from drinking wine as a matter of public morality. Men were expected to control their own wine consumption, but women were not given this authority. References Further reading Burkert, Walter. 1991. Oriental Symposia: Contrasts and Parallels. In Dining in a Classical Context. Edited by William J. Slater, 7–24. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. Davidson, James N. 1997. Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. London: HarperCollins. Hobden, Fiona. 2013. The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. Lissarrague, François. 1990. The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. Morgan, Janett. 2011. "Drunken Men and Modern Myths: Re-viewing the Classical andrôn." In Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in honour of Nick Fisher. Edited by Stephen D. Lambert, 267–290. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales. Murray, Oswyn. 2009. "The Culture of the Symposion." In A Companion to Archaic Greece. Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Hans van Wees, 508–523. Chichester, UK, and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Nielsen, Inge, and Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, eds. 1998. Meals in a Social Context: Aspects of the Communal Meal in the Hellenistic and Roman World. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus Univ. Press. Topper, Kathryn. 2012. The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. External links Ancient Greek art depicting symposium scenes A kylix with symposium scene Learning about the Symposium. Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Metropolitan Museum Leisure in classical antiquity Ancient Greek culture Society of ancient Greece History of wine Parties