The Symposium

The Symposium depicts an ancient Greek drinking party, or symposium. It was created from a drinking cup that was made in Athens around 500BCE. For more vase animations from the Panoply Vase Animation Project and for more about symposiums, visit This vase animation was created for Classics in Communities, an organisation based at the University of Oxford s Faculty of Classics which supports the teaching of ancient languages. Athenian blackfigure footed cup (kylix) (Ashmolean Museum inv. no. c. 500 BCE. Image Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3. 0 This is only free here for educational use. Please do not download or add your logo for redistribution. Please contact us if you have any questions.