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The common dining hall (syssition)
οἶκος μέγας … συσσίτιον
Known · AttestedExistence: AttestedConjectured · Our reconstructionLocation: Never foundConjectured · After an analogy: BrauronForm: After an analogyafter Brauron
Never found.
"A large house in which is the common mess of the learned men who share the Mouseion." Philostratus calls the Mouseion "an Egyptian table that summons the famous men of every land". Caracalla abolished the Aristotelians' common meals in 215 CE.
The evidence: Named by Strabo; its couches along the walls are a reconstruction after the dining rooms of Greek sanctuaries.
Within The Mouseion.
This place through time
- c. 25–20 BCE · Strabo describes the Mouseion and names no library Known: attested
- 215 CE · Caracalla abolishes the Aristotelians' common table Known: attested
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Sources (3)
- Strabo, Geography 17.1.8 (opens in a new tab)
- Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.22.3 (524)
- Cassius Dio, Roman History 78[77].7.3