{"id":2254,"date":"2020-04-30T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rigolivini.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T14:17:46","slug":"wine-among-the-founding-myths-of-western-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rigolivini.com\/en\/wine-among-the-founding-myths-of-western-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"WINE, AMONG THE FOUNDING MYTHS OF WESTERN CULTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"myth\"
\n\u201cOne day, Dionysus was the guest of Eneo (Oine\u00f9s) and fell in love with his wife Altea. When Eneo re\u00adalized this, he decided to leave the city on a pre\u00adtext. Dionysus slept with Altea, and their union led to the birth of Deianira; then, in exchange for his generous hospitality, Dionysus gave a vine to Eneo and taught him how to plant it, stipulating that his offering be called Oinos, in honor of the name of his host.\u201d <\/em>(Igino, Myths, 129). <\/em><\/p>\n

One of the many myths about the origin of wine (this one being of Thessalic origin) was established well before the arrival of Dionysus himself in the Greek Pantheon. The myth dates back, in fact, to the third millennium BC (the Sumerian period) and is the founding poem of western culture: the Gil\u00adgamesh Epic, <\/em>wherein the figure of Siduri, \u201cthe girl who makes wine<\/a>\u201d, <\/em>is custodian of the knowledge (of \u201cthought\u201d and \u201cword\u201d, hence l\u00f2gos), <\/em>which perhaps allows mortals, by means of a fleeting Montalian \u201cpassage\u201d, to achieve a connection with the Beyond<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cspiritual\u201d drink that Siduri gives to Gilgamesh is by no means \u201cnatural\u201d, but absolutely \u201ccultur\u00adal\u201d, a watershed between the wilderness (vitis labrusca <\/em>and grapes picked from the vine) and civ\u00adilization (vitis vinifera <\/em>and the domesticated vine). Wine, therefore, in ancient mysticism, is a vi\u00adtal element \u201cpar excellence\u201d, which, over the centuries, became the Blood of Christ and a formidable metaphor for the three monotheis\u00adtic religions of the Mediterranean basin. Even the prohibition of its consumption in the Islam\u00adic world is an implicit recognition of the ritual power of the nectar of wine.<\/p>\n

In fact, the success of a drink that has accompa\u00adnied homo occidentalis <\/em>since 7,000 BC could not be explained if its origin were not anchored to the Myth: hence the belief in its magical, esoteric or pharmacological properties: Caesar uses wine to fight an epidemic of plague that threatens his ranks (Plutarch, Vita Caesaris). <\/em>In the ninth cen\u00adtury the Salerno Medical School recommended its use in a \u201csober diet\u201d: \u201cInter pastam bibe vinum!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

So much of the vocabulary of our world derives from the Myth: the grape<\/a> itself (\u00e0mpelos) takes its name from the first love of Dionysus, the satyr Ampelo<\/strong>, whence for example, the word ampelog\u00adraphy originated.Many names of vines remind us of archaic stories, of the migration of populations, myths lost in the mists of time: Aglianico, Casavecchia, Malvasia, Teroldego, and so on.Despite the contribution of technology, and de\u00adspite the very modern way of producing it, wine, in some ways, is still a Myth; it is enough to think of champagne and its evocative power.Man will always need the Myth as religio <\/em>(glue, from \u201crilegare<\/em>\u201d (\u201cbind\u201d)), able to \u201ccompensate\u201d social inequalities (Barbera and Champagne<\/em>, G. Gaber), and to create a \u201ccultured\u201d awareness, able to stimulate the action of a community to\u00adwards a goal: wine, a link between archaic ele\u00adments and allegorical legends, will accompany us in this pleasantly insinuating way, throughout the coming millennia.
\ndi ANTONIO MAZZITELLI<\/strong>
\nArticolo tratto da\u201cIl Sommelier\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne day, Dionysus was the guest of Eneo (Oine\u00f9s) and fell in love with his wife Altea. When Eneo re\u00adalized this, he decided to leave the city on a pre\u00adtext. Dionysus slept with Altea, and their union led to the birth of Deianira; then, in exchange for his generous hospitality, Dionysus gave a vine to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","trasversal_tag-sapori","trasversal_tag-costa-toscana","trasversal_tag-degustazione-di-vino","trasversal_tag-sangiovese","trasversal_tag-doc-val-di-cornia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWINE, AMONG THE FOUNDING MYTHS OF WESTERN CULTURE -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many names of vines remind us of archaic stories, of the migration of populations, myth lost in the mists of time: Aglianico, Casavecchia, Malvasia, Teroldego, and so on.Despite the contribution of technology, 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