komos
Sign in to savethumb|right|280px| revellry scene from a Komast cup by the [[KY Painter, BC, Louvre (E 742)]] thumb|right|280px| scene, Black-figure pottery|black-figure [[amphora by member of the Tyrrhenian group, BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1432)]] The '''' (; : ) was a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revelers in ancient Greece, whose participants were known as kōmasts'' (, ). Its precise nature has been difficult to reconstruct from the diverse literary sources and evidence derived from vase painting.
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thumb|right|280px| revellry scene from a Komast cup by the [[KY Painter, BC, Louvre (E 742)]] thumb|right|280px| scene, Black-figure pottery|black-figure [[amphora by member of the Tyrrhenian group, BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1432)]] The '''' (; : ) was a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revelers in ancient Greece, whose participants were known as kōmasts'' (, ). Its precise nature has been difficult to reconstruct from the diverse literary sources and evidence derived from vase painting.
The earliest reference to the is in Hesiod's Shield of Herakles, which indicates it took place as part of wedding festivities (line 281). And famously Alcibiades gate-crashes the Symposium while carousing in a . However, no one kind of event is associated with the : Pindar describes them taking place at the city festivals (Pythian 5.21, 8.20, Olympian 4.9), while Demosthenes mentions them taking place after the and on the first day of the Greater Dionysia (Speeches 21.10), which may indicate the might have been a competitive event.