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

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