#kottabos

[tridentandtales]

Roman bronze statue of a woman playing kottabos (a drinking game in which one would fling the last drops of wine from their cup at a target)

Hellenistic, 1st century BCE

Louvre MNC 2290

[romegreeceart]

Game of kottabos

* British Museum

London, July 2022

The Wild Ancient Greek Drinking Game That Required Throwing Wine

Strategic flicking was the name of this game, known as kottabos.

[richo1915]

Kottabos

Kottabos was a game of skill played at Ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It involved flinging wine-lees (sediment) at a target in the middle of the room. The winner would receive a prize, comprising cakes, sweetmeats, or kisses. As Antiphanes wrote in his play: "the kottabos player puts the index finger of the right-hand through the handle of the drinking cup, palm upwards; and the remaining fingers are spread as playing a flute." The player reclines on the couch, leaning on the left elbow; and, moving only the right-forearm, throws the wine-lees.

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Woman playing kottabos. Painting attributed to the Bryn Mawr Painter, c. 480 BC

Source: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287713

The Bryn Mawr Painter is the name given to an Attic Greek red-figure vase painter active in the late Archaic period (c. 500 – 480 BCE).

The Bryn Mawr Painter was named by Sir John Beazley for a plate in the Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections (the Bryn Mawr Painter's namepiece).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Mawr_Painter

[grauniverse-blog]

Il vino (non) è una cosa seria. Lo sapevano i Greci che giocavano a Kóttabos

Il vino (non) è una cosa seria. Lo sapevano i Greci che giocavano a Kóttabos

Il vino è una cosa seria. Si, è vero. Si studia, si serve, si degusta. Se ne parla utilizzando termini tecnici. Lo si analizza. Tutto vero.

Il vino non è una cosa seria. Ovvero, il vino attiene, anche, alla sfera del piacere e, udite udite, conserva un aspetto ludico. Da quando? Da sempre.

Con il vino si può giocare. Lo si fa da tempi antichissimi. Lo facevano già i Greci con un gioco chiamato Kó…

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[monohedron]

[antikgey]

Aynı kline üzerinde uzanmış, birlikte “Kottabos” oynayan figürler. Kottabos bir içki içme oyunudur, oyundakiler şaraplarını içerek dibinde kalan tortuyu belirlenen bir hedefi devirmek için fırlatır. Hedef devrilene kadar oyun devam eder.  Fotoğraf; Geç arkaik / erken klasik dönem (MÖ 480) kırmızı figür tekniğinde bezenmiş bir Kylix.