The Komos (in Greek κώμος, pl. komoi) was a ritualisitc drunken procession performed by revellers in ancient Greece, whose participants were known as komasts. Its precise nature has been difficult to reconstruct from the diverse literary sources and the evidence of vase painting. Our earliest reference to the komos is in Hesiod's Shield of Herakles which indicates it took place as part of wedding festivities (line 281), and famously Alcibiades gate-crashes the… (More on Komos)