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TRANSCENDENT DRINKING: THE SYMPOSIUM AT SEA RECONSIDERED

In the historian Timaeus, we hear of a curious incident: ‘... in Acragas there is a house referred to as the Τrireme because of the following circumstance. Some young men were getting drunk there and became so crazed and fevered with intoxication that they thought they were sailing on a trireme and overtaken at sea by a terrible storm. They were so out of their minds that they threw all the furniture and bedding out of the house, as if into the sea, thinking that their captain had ordered them to unload the ship because of the storm. Although a crowd gathered and started snatching up the things they had thrown out, the young men did not quit their madness. And when the Generals came to the house on the following day and arrested the youths, they were still seasick; when the magistrates questioned them, they said that they had jettisoned their excess cargo into the sea because they were worried by the storm. The Generals were astonished at their derangement. One of the youths, even though he seemed older than the others, said, “O Tritons, I was so afraid that I threw myself under the rowing benches since lying there I was in the lowest possible place.” Seeing their disturbed state of mind, the officers admonished them not to fill up on more wine and sent them off. The young men all professed their gratitude ... “If we are delivered,” he said, “from such a storm and reach safe harbour, we will erect altars to you in our homeland, together with the gods of the sea, as our manifest Saviours, since you appeared to us at just the right time.” Thus the house came to be called Trireme.’1 This episode has caught the attention of those who study the symposium. It is pointed to as a particularly elaborate example of a recurrent sympotic trope: the figuring of the symposium as a ship at sea.2 Such figures, as occurring in the