182 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the origins and spread of wine from its earliest beginnings until the time of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on heretofore-underexamined lines of evidence.
Building upon the extraordinary body of research conducted within the past thirty-plus years on the origins and spread of wine as described by material evidence, particularly evidence gleaned from palaeobotanical... Read more
Introduction; 1. Near Eastern Literature; 2. Classical Literature; 3. Linguistics: Tracing the 'Wine' Word; 4. A Symposium of Evidence; Conclusion
Biography
Luke Gorton is a faculty member at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches courses on ancient Mediterranean languages, cultures, and religions. His research interests include connections between ancient Mediterranean cultures, Indo-European linguistics, Greek religion, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, and specific points of linguistic and cultural overlap, such as the translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Greek Septuagint.
