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«POUR UNE POÉTIQUE DE BYZANCE»

HOMMAGE À VASSILIS KATSAROS

Édité par

STÉPHANOS EFTHYMIADIS, CHARIS MESSIS,

PAOLO ODORICO ET IOANNIS POLÉMIS

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ILIAS ANAGNOSTAKIS

COLD AND WINE :

ON THE FREEZING OF WINE AND ON VASES BROKEN BY FROST.
TEXTUAL AND CLIMATIC EVIDENCE (4th-9th c.)

The stimulus for the present paper was provided by two epigrams referring to wine-
making and wine consumption in a cold climate, where wine vases had been broken
by frost. Since these texts date from the fourth and the ninth century respectively,
they define a period of four hundred critical years which modern research regards
as decisive for the formation of the new European wine map, as this is the period
that marks the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval one. It is
possibly not fortuitous that the first poem is attributed to Emperor Julian and the se-
cond to Leon the Mathematician1, since both men were keen vine-tenders, champions
of agriculture, and were considered wine-lovers and the last of the Greeks. In seeking
the provenance of the views on viniculture and climate expressed in both texts, and
examining these against contemporary literary testimonies, conclusions can be drawn
about diachronic zones of viticulture and the ways of storing and consuming wine.
Julian, in his epigram on the Barbarians’ Beverage, Εἰς οἶνον ἀπὸ κριθῆς, mocks
the beer of the Celts as disgusting and uncouth : «Who are you and where are you
from, Ο Dionysos ? Since by the true Bacchus, / I do not recognize you, I know only
the son of Zeus. / While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat. / Can it be then
that the Celts having no grapes made you from cereals ? / Therefore one should call
you Demetrius, not Dionysus, / rather wheat born and Bromus, not Bromius»2. If the

1. The choice of my contribution in this honorary volume is related to the interests of V. Katsaros,
see ID., «Leo the Mathematician : His Literary Presence in Byzantium During the 9th Century» , in
P.L. BUTZER – D. LOCHMANN (ed. by), Science in Western and Eastern Civilization in Carolingian
Times, Basel 1993, 383-398. For my contribution here the presentation of this paper I am most grateful
to A. Kaldellis and Ch. Messis for their good advises.
2. Greek Anthology ΙΧ, 368 (Anthologia Graeca, ed. H. BECKBY, Munich 1965-19682). See
translation and the unusual interpretation by M. NELSON, The Barbarian’s Beverage : A History of
Beer in Ancient Europe, New York 2005, p. 30-31.

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 TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Préface 7
PANAGIOTIS A. AGAPITOS, Learning to Read and Write a schedos : The
Verse Dictionary of Par. gr. 400 11
ILIAS ANAGNOSTAKIS, Cold and Wine : On the Freezing of Wine and
on Vases Broken by Frost. Textual and Climatic Evidence
(4th - 9th c.) 25
CHRISTINE ANGELIDI, Icons in a Bottle : Maria Romaia and Other Stories 47
ATHANASIOS ANGELOU, Word and Deed : Types of Narrative in Kan-
takouzenos’s Histories 57
DIMITRIOS A. CHRISTIDIS, Euripidea and Pseudo-Euripidea in Michael
Gabras 75
MARIE-HÉLÈNE CONGOURDEAU, Nicolas Cabasilas et Matthieu Cantacuzène 85
STAVROULA CONSTANTINOU, Rewriting Beauty and Youth in Female
Martyr Legends 99
STÉPHANOS EFTHYMIADIS, Une hagiographie classicisante et son au-
teur : La Vie longue de sainte Thomaïs de Lesbos (BHG 2455) 113
MICHAEL KORDOSIS, A-luo-han’s Dispatch to Fu-lin (= Rome) of
Central Asia by Gaozong and the Connection with the Arab
Defeat of 674-678 133
ELEONORA KOUNTOURA GALAKI, Decoding Byzantine Churches on
Naxos in the early Palaiologan Period : Motivations and In-
evitable Necessities 141
PAUL MAGDALINO, Debunking Astrology in Twelfth-Century Con-
stantinople 165
CONSTANTINE PAIDAS, An Unedited Discourse on the Ignorance of
the Holy Scriptures by the Patriarch Kallistos I 177
ΓΡΗΓΟΡΙΟΣ ΠΑΠΑΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ, Κριτικές παρατηρήσεις στις επιστολές του
Μιχαήλ Χωνιάτη 187

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IOANNIS POLEMIS, Neoplatonic and Hesychastic Elements in the Early
Teaching of Gregorios Palamas on the Union of Man with
God : The Life of St. Peter the Athonite 205
ANDREAS RHOBY, «When the year run through six times of thousands…»
The Date in (Inscriptional) Byzantine Epigrams 223
HELEN G. SARADI, The Streets in the Byzantine Literary Sources :
Changing Perceptions and Evolving Social Models (4th-10th c.) 243
CHRISTOS SIMELIDIS, Lustrous Verse or Expansive Prose ? The Ano-
nymous Chapters in Parisinus gr. 2750A and Vaticanus gr. 1898 273
MARIA TZIATZI-PAPAGIANNI, Bemerkungen zum Kontakion «Εἰς τὸν
ἐσχηκότα τὸν λεγεῶνα τῶν δαιμόνων» des Romanos Melodos 295
Abréviations 313
Table des matières 317

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