Pottery in the Symposium

     Going back to talk about the Symposium, along with the many decorations and foods that were there, pottery and the images on it were very significant to the Symposium. They are one of the main reasons why we know what went on in these social gatherings.

     There was many forms of pottery that were used at the symposium, and they usually had images of different events that took place on them.
      The most common design used was that of red figure painting. Here are a few red figure images from  the pottery of the symposium.

     This is an example of one image that was shown on a piece of pottery.  The image depicts Hetaere and a guest socializing at the "drinking party".
source: http://lib.lbcc.edu/handouts/greece.html

     On this example shown, a slave boy draws wine from a krater to serve to the guests of the symposium.
source: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Pottery2.htm

    This krater, which was used to store wine, has an image of an Aulos player entertaining males guests while they talk and drink.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium

     These along with many other images helped us learn what exactly went on during the meetings at the symposium; from discussions, to entertainment, eating, drinking, or even acts of the slaves.