It seems likely to me, however, that this comes from the very non-Dominarian word “Golgotha”(which means “The Place of the Skull”), the name for the hill upon which Jesus of Nazareth is reported to have been crucified. “Golgothian” is a very particular reference-Jeff Grubb’s novel, The Brothers’ War, explains this as referring to Golgoth, a name with unclear origins lost to time. While Antiquities might be said to be the start of Magic’s own narrative lore, a story told through the cards for the very first time, this card and others still borrow very much from real world mythologies.
Golgothian Sylex has no pretense about being anything other than an ancient Hellenistic wine bowl, but it has single-handedly inspired this article for reasons that will become clear momentarily. If you’ve played magic for awhile, you’ve probably seen them before on such cards as Mana Cylix, Ashnod’s Cylix, and this beauty: While they are doing this, they pass a massive drinking vessel-called a kylix (κύλιξ)-full of wine, from person to person, and grow progressively more inebriated.
In the story, Socrates strolls into an evening gathering of friends, who begin to have something of a philosophical game, where they take turns discoursing on the origin and nature of love. One of my favorite ancient stories is Plato’s Symposium, sometimes called the Symposium on Love.
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