Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A night at the symposium


Jesus broke bread and drank wine with his disciples the night before his death. The gods drank in Enlil Elish before deciding whether to give in to Marduk's demands. And Plato's talks of love center around a table laden with drink. Any guesses to why one mythological figure is prevalent in all of these cases? And who is he? What is the binding that ties these very different stories together?

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