Definition of Syssitia. Meaning of Syssitia. Synonyms of Syssitia

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Syssitia. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Syssitia and, of course, Syssitia synonyms and on the right images related to the word Syssitia.

Definition of Syssitia

No result for Syssitia. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Syssitia from wikipedia

- The syssitia (Ancient Gr****: συσσίτια syssítia, plural of συσσίτιον syssítion) were, in ancient Greece, common meals for men and youths in social or religious...
- amount of what they yielded from their kleros to their syssitia, or mess. These donations to the syssitia were a requirement for every Spartan citizen. All...
- military training, called the agoge, and who were members in good standing of syssitia (mess hall), were eligible. Usually, the only people eligible to receive...
- Deipnosophists (Banquet of the Learned) of Athenaeus. The syssitia (τὰ συσσίτια tà syssítia) were mandatory meals shared by social or religious groups...
- boys' clothes daily to ensure that they fit. The ephors had their own syssitia, the common meal of Spartan citizens. Only 67 ephors are known by name...
- such as cowardice in battle or the inability to pay for membership in the syssitia. Failure to pay became such an increasingly severe problem because commercial...
- Mothax Sciritae Epeunacti Partheniae Society Agoge Crypteia Spartan army Syssitia Xenelasia Women Cults Aphrodite (Ambologera, Areia, Temple) Artemis (Caryatis...
- innovated the Gerousia, the Ephorate, the Enomotiae, the Triacades and the Syssitia. Herodotus does not mention the oracle in the second report. The ****ociated...
- such as cowardice in battle and inability to pay for membership in the syssitia. The latter became increasingly severe; as commercial activity began to...
- general sense, ranging from "club leader" to "master of the tables" at syssitia to "Roman governor".[citation needed] In Athens, a system of three concurrent...