The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)Athenaeus, of Naucratis
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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Civilization, Greco-Roman; Dinners and dining -- Greece; Greece -- Social life and customs; Homosexuality -- Greece
And there was a vine among the people of Trœzene, (as Aristotle says,
in his book on their polity,) called Anthedonian, and another called
Hyperian; from men of the name of Anthus and Hyperus, just as the
Althephian vine is named after a man of the name of Althephias, one of
the descendants of Alpheus.
57. Alcman somewhere speaks of a wine as free from fire, and smelling of
flowers, which is produced from the Five Hills, a place about seven
furlongs from Sparta. And he mentions another wine which comes from
Denthiades, a small fortress, and another from Oenus, and another from
Onoglæ and Stathmi. And these places are all near Pitane. Accordingly,
he says, "And wine from Oenus, or from Denthis, or from Carystus, or
from Onoglæ, or from Stathmi." The Carystian wine is that which comes
from Carystus in Laconia, on the borders of Arcadia. And he calls it
"free from fire," as not having been boiled; for they often used boiled
wines. Polybius says that there was an admirable wine made at Capua;
which was called ἀναδενδρίτης, to which no other wine was at all
comparable. But Alciphron of the Mæander says, that there was a mountain
village near the Ephesian territories, which was formerly called
Latona's, but is now called Latorea, from Latorea the Amazon; and that
there also Pramnian wine is made. Timachidas the Rhodian calls a wine
made at Rhodes ὑπόχυτος, or _the adulterated wine_, being near akin to
sweet wine. But that wine is called γλύξις which goes through no process of
decoction.
There is also a Rhodian wine, which Polyzelus calls αὐτίτης:[52:1] and
another which Plato the comic writer calls καπνίας;[52:2] and this wine is
made in the greatest perfection at Beneventum, a city in Italy. But the
wine Amphis is spoken of as a very poor wine by Sosicrates. The ancients
used also a certain wine made of spices, which they called τρίμμα. But
Theophrastus, in his History of Plants, says, that a wine is made in
Heræa in Arcadia which, when it is drunk, drives men out of their
senses, and makes women inclined to pregnancy: and that around Cerunia
in Achaia there is a kind of vine, from which a wine is made which has a
tendency to cause abortion in pregnant women; and if they eat the grapes
too, says he, they miscarry;--and the Trœzenian wine, he says, makes
those who drink it barren: and at Thasos, says he, they make a wine
which produces sleep, and another which causes those who drink it to
keep awake.
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