Wine Cultures

Antonetti, Claudia, Bryan De Notariis & Marco Enrico (eds.). 2024. Wine cultures: Gandhāra and beyond (Antichistica 40). Venezia: Venice University Press.

The volume Wine Cultures. Gandhāra and Beyond represents the primary outcome of the MALIWI project (SPIN Ca’ Foscari 2021) directed by Claudia Antonetti. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this work seeks to explore the production techniques, social functions, and cultural significance of intoxicating drinks with particular reference to wine – an extraordinary beverage that has been intertwined with human history for millennia. This volume gathers contributions by scholars interested in studying wine and drinking culture in Gandhāra and neighbouring regions, including Ancient Assyria, Arachosia, and present-day India. The topic is explored from three fundamental perspectives, employing a diverse range of sources, including literary and historical texts, as well as linguistic, iconographic, archaeological, and anthropological evidence.

Abstract

• Introduction
• Claudia Antonetti, Bryan De Notariis, Marco Enrico

• Intoxicating Nectars of Plenty: Reflections on Wine and Other Drinks in Ancient South Asia
• James Mchugh

INDOLOGICAL SOURCES: LITERATURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY

• The Gandhāric Roots of the Indian Symposion and Sympotic-like Elements in Buddhist Literature
• Bryan De Notariis

• In Search of Regional/Local (deśī) Words for ‘Intoxicant’ in First-Millennium India
• Andrea Drocco

• Wine in India and Other Substances: An Anthropology of ‘Entheogens’
• Stefano Beggiora

ARCHAEOLOGY OF WINE: COMPARISONS AND DIACHRONIES

• The Archaeology of Wine in the Southern Caucasus: New Methods for an Old Tradition
• Elena Rova

• An Assyrian Winery in Khinis, Ancient Khanusa (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
• Francesca Simi, Costanza Coppini, Daniele Morandi Bonacossi

• Wine in Achaemenid Arachosia: An Imperial Network of Regional Wines
• Johal Prabhjeet

• Wine in Gandhāra: Notes on a Mythical and Economical Geography
• Omar Coloru, Elisa Iori, Luca M. Olivieri

GANDHĀRA AND CLASSICAL SOURCES: IMAGERY, ICONOGRAPHY, EPIGRAPHY AND TEXTS

• Beyond the Form: Some Observations on Wine-Symbolism and Related Figurative Themes in Gandharan Art
• Cristiano Moscatelli, Anna Filigenzi

• Wine, Women and Royalty in Gandhāra
• Claudia Antonetti

• Wine in the Gandhāran Epigraphic Corpus
• Stefan Baums

• Strabo on Wine in Ancient India
• Marco Enrico