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In vino veritas is a Latin phrase that means ' in wine, there is truth ', suggesting a person under the influence of alcohol is more likely to speak their hidden thoughts and desires. The phrase is sometimes continued as, in vīnō vēritās, in aquā sānitās, ' in wine there is truth, in water there is good sense (or good health) '. Similar ...
Dionysus with Hermes, a silenus and grapes Wine boy at a symposium. The origins of wine-making in Greece go back 6,500 years [9] [10] and evidence suggesting wine production confirm that Greece is home to the second oldest known grape wine remnants discovered in the world [6] [9] [11] and the world's earliest evidence of crushed grapes. [9]
Stop drinking only water, but take a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses. From I Timothy 5:23 Μολὼν λαβέ! Molṑn labé! "Come take [them]!" King Leonidas of Sparta, in response to King Xerxes of Persia's demand that the Greek army lay down their arms before the Battle of Thermopylae. [21]
The Greek–Spanish Dictionary (DGE) [1] is a recent link in the long chain of European lexicographical tradition of general dictionaries of Ancient Greek, the first of which could be considered the Thesaurus Graecae Linguae of Henri Estienne (a.k.a. Henricus Stephanus, Paris, 1572).
Vino Greco is the name of a wine style which originated, at least 2,150 years ago, as an Italian imitation of the sweet, strong Greek wines that were exported to Italy at the period of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Its names in other languages were: Latin vinum graecum; English Greek, greke, wine greke; French vin grec.
Like early wine critics, Greek poets would extol the virtues of certain wines and review less favorably those not up to their standards. The wines most frequently cited as being of good quality were those of Chalkidike, Ismaros, Khios, Kos, Lesbos, Mende, Naxos, Peparethos (present-day Skopelos) and Thasos. Among individual wines lauded were ...
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (/ d aɪ. ə ˈ n aɪ s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Diónysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.
Abbreviation for "Agricultural Cooperative" on Greek wine labels and for Adega Cooperativa on Portuguese labels. Acescence Wine with a sharp, sweet-and-sour tang. The acescence characteristics frequently recalls a vinegary smell. Adamado Portuguese term for a medium-sweet wine Adega Portuguese wine term for a winery or wine cellar. Almacenista