komastic

comparative more komastic · superlative most komastic · alternative comastic

1. Of or relating to a komast.

   In a komastic procession one youth leads another who wears a kidaris and carries a crooked stick; […]

   1991, Margaret Miller, “Foreigners at the Greek Symposium?”, in William J. Slater, editor, Dining in a Classical Context, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 81

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   At most victory celebrations, presumably, there was no commissioned ode; and traditional songs could have been found for each of the three contexts—familiar symposiastic and komastic songs as well as victory songs.

   1988, American Journal of Philology, volume 109, page 193

   […] of a vulgar performer in a komastic street parade, and accordingly brands his style of rhetorical accusation as falling beneath acceptable standards of political debate.

   2004, Stephen Halliwell, “Aischrology, Shame, and Comedy”, in Ineke Sluiter, Ralph M. Rosen, editors, Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, Brill, →ISBN, page 126

   Thus, what begins as a komastic venture does not end in a symposion, even though the action keeps it firmly in mind.

   2013, Fiona Hobden, The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 177

   Those who see these verses describing a sympotic rather than a komastic scene explain that the reclining symposiast uses the komastic phrase to issue a sexual invitation to his companion (or companions).

   2020, Richard L[awrence] Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle, “Commentary”, in Euripides: Cyclops (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 206