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Bottles and Battles - The Rise and Fall of the Dionysian Mode of Cultural Production. A Study in Political Anthropology and Institutions in Greece and Western Europe - Hardcover
This work by Bjørn Qviller is an investigation into the political functions of sacrifice, and in particular libation rituals. The work draws on material from a great comparative context, from Mesopatamia and other archaic cultures, as well as from anthropological materials, but most of all from archaic and classical Greek materials. In this way Prof. Qviller describes how the symposia, the drinking clubs of elite groups, develop into political clubs, and how these gradually are transformed into formal political institutions and even the ancient Greek forms of democratic institutions. Thus the work is also a political history of the production and drinking of wine, always one of the most sought for luxury items of the elites. The further development of politics throughout the middle ages are also seen in the same perspective, including the Christian sacramental use of the wine.
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- PublisherHermes Academic Publishing
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 8280340505
- ISBN 13 9788280340504
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages309
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