S1_Food + Marriage

• Honey: used as sweetener
• Celery: popular offering to the dead, cure for hangovers
• Deipnon: Dinner, main meal
• Symposium: men-only drinking party
• kottabos: drinking game, throws wine lees at plastinx into disk called manes, both lees and noise made is called latex
• kylix: DRINKING cup with a wide, flat, shallow design with two horizontal handles
• krater: large, open MIXING bowl (variations: volute, calyx, bell)
• amphora: tall vessel with two handles used to STORE and TRANSPORT wine as well as mark graves
• rhyton: a drinking horn used either for DRINKING or POURING LIBATIONS
• oinochoe: an S-shaped, often terracotta jar used for STORING wine
• lekythos: a jar with a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck that is used to STORE oils
• olpe: a pitcher used for POURING oil/wine
• epigamia: right to marry
• hymenaios: wedding song (sung in the procession to the groom's house, dedicated to Hymen)
• epithalamion: wedding song (sung by young boys and girls on wedding night at the threshold)
• What were amphoras used for?

  To store and transport wine, to mark graves
• When is the hymenaion sung?

  in procession to the groom's house
• Who is the epithalamion sung by?

  young boys & girls