Tag: Immortality Key
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The Recipe You’d Die For: Dioscorides, Dionysus, and the Wine That Touched God
The kykeon was the most famous sacred drink in the ancient world — and the ancient Greeks wrote down almost everything about their wines except this one. Dioscorides catalogued dozens of medicated wine recipes; the cult of Dionysus turned wine into a god you could drink; and every one of these sacred preparations was engineered to do a single thing —…