Wine in ancient Greece: some Platonist ponderings

Title: Wine in ancient Greece: some Platonist ponderings
Creator: Tarrant, Harold
Relation: Wine & Philosophy: a Symposium on Thinking and Drinking p. 15-29
Relation: http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405154314.html
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: Homer's work, at the beginning of European literature, seems to presuppose a great many things about wine. To begin with, it was an ordinary part of life, made from a common plant, and often safer to drink than water. Next, it was part of the civilized life that the Greeks and those most like them had developed, for which reason the uncivilized Cyclops is innocent both of its effects and of the expectation that it should be mixed with water. Like so much else aroundithem, the Greeks saw that wine had positive or negative value in accordance with how and in what circumstances it was used.
Subject: Platonists; wine; Homer; society; Ancient Greeks
Identifier: uon:6690
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804663
Identifier: ISBN:9781405154314

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