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Monday, May 7, 2018

The pivotal place of the ancient GREEKS in the history of drunkenness

Given the GREEK penchant for cocking a snook at those who dared to be not- GREEK, it's a little surprising that their god of wine, Dionysus, was usually said to be a foreigner. He was born on Mount Nysa, which was in either Ethiopia or Arabia, or sometimes India, and he had traveled to Greece from the ...


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