Series | Antiquity Studies
Volume 40 | Edited book | Wine Cultures
Abstract
The volume Wine Cultures. Gandhāra and Beyond represents the primary outcome of the MALIWI project (SPIN Ca’ Foscari 2021) directed by Claudia Antonetti. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this work seeks to explore the production techniques, social functions, and cultural significance of intoxicating drinks with particular reference to wine – an extraordinary beverage that has been intertwined with human history for millennia. This volume gathers contributions by scholars interested in studying wine and drinking culture in Gandhāra and neighbouring regions, including Ancient Assyria, Arachosia, and present-day India. The topic is explored from three fundamental perspectives, employing a diverse range of sources, including literary and historical texts, as well as linguistic, iconographic, archaeological, and anthropological evidence.
Keywords Greek Geography • Greek historiography • Symposium • Kurdistan Region of Iraq • Shamanism • Southern Caucasus • Islamic period • Musikanos • New Year festival • Wine Presses • Ancient Pakistan • Afghanistan • Arachosia • India • Wine symbolism • Winemaking • Tutelary couples • Bioarchaeology • Viniculture • Mesopotamia • Middle Indo-Aryan • Assacenians • Herakles • Curtius Rufus • Buddhism • Scythians • Paterae • Greater Gandhāra • Indo-Greeks • Alcohol • Buddhist Cosmology • Intoxicants • Roman Geography • Alexander the Great • Dionysus • Achaemenid • Queen Cleophis • Wine Production • Ancient wine • Prakrit • Gandhāra • Onesicritus • Wine culture • Ancient Afghanistan • Hārītī • <p>Gandhāra • Assyria • Vinaya • Indo-Scythians • Wine libation • Pāli • Phialai • Drinking culture • Gandhāran art • Wine • Swat • Utopia • Psychoactive drugs • Altered states • Kuvalayamālā • Georgia • Deśī • Viticulture • Palm wine • Fashion Ware • Iranian Plateau • Archaeology • Hellenistic age • Erotic couples • Gandharan Revelry scenes
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-816-3 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-816-3 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-877-4 | Published Oct. 8, 2024 | Language en
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