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    as a kottabos player. The inscription beside her is Doric, the dialect used by the Sicilians. As Antiphanes wrote in his play: "the kottabos player...
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    McGee and appeared three times a year. The name "Kottabos" was taken from the Greek drinking game Kottabos. Robert Yelverton Tyrrell was the first editor-in-chief...
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    in competitive entertainments. A game sometimes played at symposia was kottabos, in which players swirled the dregs of their wine in a kylix, a platter-like...
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    lyrics and poems in magazines since entering Trinity College, especially in Kottabos and the Dublin University Magazine. In mid-1881, at 27 years old, he published...
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    Banqueters playing Kottabos and girl playing the aulos, Greece (c. 420 BCE). Banqueting and music have continued to be two important entertainments since...
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    publish newspapers and magazines. From 1869 to 1893 the literary magazine Kottabos was published, edited by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell. It has been called 'perhaps...
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    This painting, on the inside of a kylix, depicts a hetaira playing kottabos, a drinking game played at symposia in which the participants flicked the dregs...
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    been banned at some institutions, particularly colleges and universities. Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games from ancient Greece, dated...
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  • tradition inspired by the use of the Greek banquet. Banqueters playing Kottabos while a musician plays the Aulos, decorated by the artist 'Nicias'/'Nikias'...
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  • in 1871. From 1869 he became the first editor of the literary magazine Kottabos. He also founded the "more solemn academic journal" Hermathena in 1873...
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