Scenografia simposiale

Abstract

Archaic symposium was a spectacle based on words. Performers used
words in order to push their audience’s imagination beyond the walls of sympotic
space and to recreate different settings, such as idyllic gardens or the city’s agora. This
phenomenon may be compared to the “verbal scenography” employed by theatre authors
and makes sympotic poems embedded with visual allusions to either pragmatic
or imaginary settings.