THE BANQUETS OF THRACIANS AS AN EXPRESSION OF INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS. A QUICK GLANCE THROUGH THE STRAINER'S HOLES Cover Image

THE BANQUETS OF THRACIANS AS AN EXPRESSION OF INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS. A QUICK GLANCE THROUGH THE STRAINER'S HOLES
THE BANQUETS OF THRACIANS AS AN EXPRESSION OF INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS. A QUICK GLANCE THROUGH THE STRAINER'S HOLES

Author(s): Dragoş Măndescu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Thracians; banquets; wine; cultural patterns; imitation; acculturation.

Summary/Abstract: Based on information provided by written sources, not very many but quite contradictory, about the Thracian feasts accompanied by wine consumption, the author insists on one of them described by Diodorus of Sicily, which speaks of a particular Getic manner of drinking wine. In order to examine this particular Getic custom, the archaeological data provided by graves, settlements and hoards discoveries are analyzed, like vessels for wine consumption, drinking vessel assemblages, importations and imitations of patterns of the Greek and Roman world. It is an undisputable fact that the relationship between power and prestige and the wine drinking present in societies such as the Greek-Macedonian and Hellenistic and, later, Roman was the pattern for the Thracian elites. Almost everything connected with wine in the Thracian world is due to these poles of prestige and influence: the banquet pattern, the vessels for drinking, the way the wine was prepared before serving, and even the origins of the wine.

  • Issue Year: 59/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 83-95
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English