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Wine Cultures

Gandhāra and Beyond

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

Thema codes NHF • JBCC4 • NKD • 1FK • 3CT

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 | Pubblicato 08 Ottobre 2024 | Lingua en