Wine Cultures
Gandhāra and Beyond
open access
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edited by
- Claudia Antonetti - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - email orcid profile
- Bryan De Notariis - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - email
- Marco Enrico - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - email
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 Gandhāra • Viniculture • Alexander the Great • Ancient wine • Georgia • Phialai • Greek historiography • Indo-Scythians • Wine culture • Symposium • Assyria • Curtius Rufus • Middle Indo-Aryan • Prakrit • Psychoactive drugs • Onesicritus • Achaemenid • Roman Geography • Arachosia • Swat • Wine • Tutelary couples • Islamic period • Fashion Ware • Greater Gandhāra • Winemaking • Drinking culture • India • Pāli • Vinaya • Kuvalayamālā • Mesopotamia • Palm wine • Erotic couples • Bioarchaeology • Hārītī • Musikanos • Wine Presses • Intoxicants • Greek Geography • Southern Caucasus • Scythians • Altered states • Hellenistic age • Iranian Plateau • Wine Production • Buddhism • Dionysus • Herakles • Ancient Pakistan • Viticulture • Gandharan Revelry scenes • Kurdistan Region of Iraq • Queen Cleophis • Gandhāran art • Assacenians • Ancient Afghanistan • New Year festival • Shamanism • Afghanistan • Wine libation • Utopia • Deśī • Alcohol • Paterae • Wine symbolism • Archaeology • Indo-Greeks • Buddhist Cosmology
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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