Book contents
- Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
- Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustration and Tables
- Places of Original Publication
- Preface
- Editions and Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels
- 1 Who is Dicaeopolis? (1988)
- 2 Marginalia Obsceniora: Some Problems in Aristophanes’ Wasps (1990)
- 3 Wine in Old Comedy (1995)
- 4 Ionian Iambus and Attic Komoidia: Father and Daughter, or Just Cousins? (2002)
- 5 Socrates in Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Audience of Attic Comedy (2007)
- 6 Aristophanes’ Clouds: An Agonistic Note (2015)
- 7 The Lesson of Book 2 (2018)
- 8 Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll, Philetas and Longus (1985)
- 9 Frame and Framed in Theocritus Poems 6 and 7 (1996)
- 10 The Reception of Apollonius Rhodius in Imperial Greek Literature (2000)
- 11 Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus and Limenius (2015)
- 12 Greek Sophists and Greek Poetry in the Second Sophistic (1989)
- 13 Poetry and Poets in Asia and Achaea (1989)
- 14 Greek Poetry in the Antonine Age (1990)
- 15 Hadrian and Greek Poetry (2002)
- 16 Dionysius of Alexandria: A Greek Poet in the Roman Empire (2004)
- 17 Luxury Cruisers? Philip’s Epigrammatists between Greece and Rome (2012)
- 18 Doing Doric (2016)
- 19 The Novels and the Real World (1977)
- 20 The Readership of Greek Novels in the Ancient World (1994)
- 21 Philostratus: Writer of Fiction (1994)
- 22 Names and a Gem: Aspects of Allusion in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus (1995)
- 23 The Ancient Readers of the Greek Novels (1996)
- 24 Phoenician Games in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica (1998)
- 25 The Chronology of the Earlier Greek Novels since B. E. Perry: Revisions and Precisions (2002)
- 26 The Function of Mythology in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2003)
- 27 Metaphor in Daphnis and Chloe (2005)
- 28 The Construction of the Classical Past in the Ancient Greek Novels (2006)
- 29 Viewing and Listening on the Novelist’s Page (2006)
- 30 Direct Speech in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2006)
- 31 Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy (2007)
- 32 Links between Antonius Diogenes and Petronius (2007)
- 33 Literary Milieux (2008)
- 34 The Uses of Bookishness (2009)
- 35 Country Virtues, City Vices in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe? (2009)
- 36 Socrates’ Cock and Daphnis’ Goats: The Rarity of Vows in the Religious Practice of the Greek Novels (2012)
- 37 Caging Grasshoppers: Longus’ Materials for Weaving ‘Reality’ (2013)
- 38 ‘Milesian Tales’ (2013)
- 39 A Land without Priests? Religious Authority in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe (2015)
- 40 Poetic Elements in the Greek Novelists’ Prose (2017)
- 41 Captured Moments: Illustrating Longus’ Prose (2018)
- 42 Λέξεις Λόγγου (2019)
- 43 Animals, Slaves and Masters in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2019)
- 44 The Demotion of the Literary Cowherd (2019)
- 45 Callimachus and Longus (2019)
- 46 Silence in Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius and Longus (2020)
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index of Greek Terms
- General Index
3 - Wine in Old Comedy (1995)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2023
Book contents
- Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
- Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustration and Tables
- Places of Original Publication
- Preface
- Editions and Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels
- 1 Who is Dicaeopolis? (1988)
- 2 Marginalia Obsceniora: Some Problems in Aristophanes’ Wasps (1990)
- 3 Wine in Old Comedy (1995)
- 4 Ionian Iambus and Attic Komoidia: Father and Daughter, or Just Cousins? (2002)
- 5 Socrates in Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Audience of Attic Comedy (2007)
- 6 Aristophanes’ Clouds: An Agonistic Note (2015)
- 7 The Lesson of Book 2 (2018)
- 8 Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll, Philetas and Longus (1985)
- 9 Frame and Framed in Theocritus Poems 6 and 7 (1996)
- 10 The Reception of Apollonius Rhodius in Imperial Greek Literature (2000)
- 11 Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus and Limenius (2015)
- 12 Greek Sophists and Greek Poetry in the Second Sophistic (1989)
- 13 Poetry and Poets in Asia and Achaea (1989)
- 14 Greek Poetry in the Antonine Age (1990)
- 15 Hadrian and Greek Poetry (2002)
- 16 Dionysius of Alexandria: A Greek Poet in the Roman Empire (2004)
- 17 Luxury Cruisers? Philip’s Epigrammatists between Greece and Rome (2012)
- 18 Doing Doric (2016)
- 19 The Novels and the Real World (1977)
- 20 The Readership of Greek Novels in the Ancient World (1994)
- 21 Philostratus: Writer of Fiction (1994)
- 22 Names and a Gem: Aspects of Allusion in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus (1995)
- 23 The Ancient Readers of the Greek Novels (1996)
- 24 Phoenician Games in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica (1998)
- 25 The Chronology of the Earlier Greek Novels since B. E. Perry: Revisions and Precisions (2002)
- 26 The Function of Mythology in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2003)
- 27 Metaphor in Daphnis and Chloe (2005)
- 28 The Construction of the Classical Past in the Ancient Greek Novels (2006)
- 29 Viewing and Listening on the Novelist’s Page (2006)
- 30 Direct Speech in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2006)
- 31 Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy (2007)
- 32 Links between Antonius Diogenes and Petronius (2007)
- 33 Literary Milieux (2008)
- 34 The Uses of Bookishness (2009)
- 35 Country Virtues, City Vices in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe? (2009)
- 36 Socrates’ Cock and Daphnis’ Goats: The Rarity of Vows in the Religious Practice of the Greek Novels (2012)
- 37 Caging Grasshoppers: Longus’ Materials for Weaving ‘Reality’ (2013)
- 38 ‘Milesian Tales’ (2013)
- 39 A Land without Priests? Religious Authority in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe (2015)
- 40 Poetic Elements in the Greek Novelists’ Prose (2017)
- 41 Captured Moments: Illustrating Longus’ Prose (2018)
- 42 Λέξεις Λόγγου (2019)
- 43 Animals, Slaves and Masters in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (2019)
- 44 The Demotion of the Literary Cowherd (2019)
- 45 Callimachus and Longus (2019)
- 46 Silence in Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius and Longus (2020)
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index of Greek Terms
- General Index
Summary
This chapter documents Old Comedy’s presentation of alcoholic consumption, both in a sympotic context and elsewhere, and to bring out how different was the perception of the consumption of wine by discerning citizens in a symposium, mixed with water and in moderation, from that by women or slaves, typically indiscriminately, neat and to excess
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- Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture , pp. 42 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023