Antiquity Studies

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

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 | Published Oct. 8, 2024 | Language en