Vine and Wine in the Ancient Greek World

Vine and Wine in the Ancient Greek World 

by Stavroula Kourakou-Dragona

Translation: Maria Relaki
Foinikas Publications
Published in 2015 

Cloth hardcover edition, 294 pages, 32×24 cm

Table of contents

-Nobody blinded the Cyclops, but nobody got him drunk
-The Pramneios and the pramnian wines
-The Byblinos wine of Hesiod
-The two protropos wines
-Aegosthenites: the wine of Megaris
-The wines anthosmias and saprias
-Satire of wine tasting
-The wine of the Phliasia Chora
-Red and black wines: Diachronic processes of winemaking
-The tethalassomenoi wines: the use of salt in winemaking
-The law of Thasos for the protection of the vinegrowers
-The kapneios ampelos and the kapnias wine. The fumigation of wines
-Vintage without lenos
-The oenotechnical definitions of Hesychius
-The pressing of the marc without a press
-The interpretation of Dionysiac viticultural myths
-Phytoprotection in the vineyards of ancient Mende
-Viticultural themes based on the Geography of Strabo
-The ampelos of Lemnos
-Wine and herbs in the Land of Pan