Poetry, wine and death
The imposing mosaic from the Château de Boudry showing a Roman banquet or symposium set in an asarotos oikos (unswept room) where the debris from a meal lies on the floor. http://www.chateaudeboudry.ch/?a=38,58,105
The link between poetry, love and death was well established in ancient times. Eros-thanatos is a recurrent theme of ancient lyric poetry. Wi…