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

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