Sunday, February 12, 2006

 

This Day in Ancient History

This was the second day of the ancient Greek festival Anthesteria, called Choes for the name of the jugs into which the new wine from the pithoi was poured and from which it was tasted. Gifts of toy pitchers and flowers are given to children.

# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:17 AM
Comments:
So was this the ancient version of Nouveau Beajolais?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:11 AM
 
Exactly. Except they watered the wine down.
# posted by Blogger Roger Fraley : 7:38 PM
 
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