Alcaeus 347. 3-4 (Athenaeus, Deipnosophists x 430c-d)

“Semele and Zeus’ son gave wine to men as an amnesia from their troubles”

 

 

οἶνον γὰρ Σεμέλας καὶ Δίος υἶος λαθικάδεον

ἀνθρώποισιν ἔδωκ’.

Homer has nothing on the lyric poets as a oenophile.

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