The Last Guest to Arrive

Classical Greece · 416 BC

The Last Guest to Arrive

A poet throws a dinner, a drunk crashes it, and a student writes the night down forever

The tragedian Agathon threw a dinner in Athens in 416 BC, the day after his first play took the prize at the Lenaia, and the guests settled in to drink and make speeches in praise of love.

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