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Original-language term required. An activity held during these events included variants in which participants sank oxybapha and another that produced a loud sound when the plastinx and manes collided. At these events, which took place in the andrōn, participants sang improvised skolia poetry while entertained by hetaira. “Confronted” (15[1])leopards are depicted above this type of event in their eponymous Etruscan tomb. A game of kottabos is depicted on a fresco of one of these events in the Tomb of the Diver, in which (*) reclining participants fling dregs at a central target. In one work, one of these events held in Agathon’s house features speeches on the nature of Eros (10[1])and ends with an inebriated Alcibiades confessing his sexual fantasies about Socrates. For 10 points, name these ancient Greek drinking parties that title a Platonic dialogue about love. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: symposia [or symposium; prompt on banquets or feasts or parties; prompt on drinking parties until read; prompt on kottabos until read by asking “what events typically featured that game?”]
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