Empedocles’ Account of Wine (fr.81) and Premodern Oenology

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  • Leon Wash Trinity College Dublin

Abstract

In Empedocles’ “wine is water from bark, rotten in wood,” the reference is not to a wooden cask but to the grapevine itself, in which wine was thought to form naturally.

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Published

2024-05-17

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