The time of the symposium is when the guests experience wine, a beverage linked to Dionysus and loaded with his ambivalent and dangerous powers, for the individual as for the social order. The symposium constitutes a socially regulated framework, a framework that makes it possible to share that liminal experience as a group without being subjected to its risks, to touch upon the experience of alterity without losing his own identity. The drinking is part of a social ritual where the pleasures of conversation, song, poetry, games, and eros have the task of moderating the effects of drunkenness in a fabric of gestures, attitudes, and rules that place everyone under the gaze of all the others, and under the control of the symposiarch, the master of the symposium. Domesticated in this way, wine reveals every individual’s truth and allows a temporary and controlled evasion from the prescriptions and prohibitions of ordinary life. A successful symposium, Lissarague states, is the locus of “good mixing”: mixing of the wine, which, in principle, was never consumed pure, but cut with water; mixing of the guests, whose conversation, jokes, and games had to guarantee the harmony of the meeting, the pleasure of all and of each and every one.