Events Tagged: "symposium"

Minoan wine culture at peak - elaborate wine vessels, palace wine storage, ritual wine drinking at Knossos

Dionysus cult spreads in Greece - wine becomes sacred, symposium culture develops, wine mixed with water as civilized practice

Homer describes wine culture - 'wine-dark sea,' proper mixing ratios, wine as civilized marker versus barbarism

Hochdorf chieftain burial - Celtic prince buried with Greek bronze cauldron, drinking horns, shows wine symposium culture adopted by Celts

Plato's Symposium - philosophical dialogue at drinking party, wine enables truth but requires moderation