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Document Details : Title: Divine or Godless Drinks? Subtitle: Ancient Greek Nootions Concerning the Origins of Beer and Wine Author(s): NELSON, Max Journal: ARAM Periodical Volume: 17 Date: 2005 Pages: 129-134 DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.17.0.583325 Abstract : In this paper, however, I am not interested in the reality of the origins of beer or wine, a question which is at the same time among the most popular and the one least able to be answered with certainty because of our complete lack of early evidence. Rather my focus will be on the notions concerning the origins, both of beer and wine, in ancient Greece. As we will see it was mainly through stories concerning Dionysus, the god of intoxication, that Greeks expressed their notions about the origins of intoxicants, and these stories tell us much more about ancient perceptions of drinking than of the realities concerning the origins of beverages. |
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