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

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