Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 14 15/16 in. (38 cm), Vases, Flute player between two dancing youths in armor. The Greeks always diluted their wine with water. It was the privilege of the symposiarch, who acted as master of ceremonies at a drinking party, to decide the proportion of wine to water in each krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) as the evening progressed
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