Why this word is great
SYMPOSIARCH — [Noun] The appointed arbiter of an ancient Greek symposium, responsible for regulating the drinking, entertainment, and intellectual tone of the feast. From Ancient Greek συμποσίαρχος (sumposíarkhos), from συμπόσιον (sympósion, "drinking party, symposium") + ἀρχός (arkhós, "leader, ruler"). Unlike a symposiast, a mere participant in the revelry, or a toastmaster, a public emcee for ceremonial toasts, the symposiarch was the intimate despot of a private, ritualized communion, governing the delicate threshold between spirited conversation and brute inebriation. He is the hand that decrees the wine-to-water ratio in the krater, the voice that sets the night’s theme from love to cosmology, and the judicious eye that quells a quarrel before it shatters a cup—a temporary, benevolent monarch presiding over the sacred, fragile order of cups and minds.