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There is even speculation that he referred to some distilled spirit in which case the color was indeed blue.
by fpoling 6y ago
There is even speculation that he referred to some distilled spirit in which case the color was indeed blue.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoDistillation to make alcoholic beverages wasn’t known to Bronze Age/early Iron Age Greece. It didn’t take off until the early centuries AD.
- fpoling 6y agoWe do not know if the distillation was not known. We just do not have evidence that it existed. Technology necessary to produce distilling equipment was available.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoIt is extremely unlikely that distillation of alcoholic beverages was known to the Ancient Greeks. Once distillation took off at the point when it is documented in the early first millennium, it swiftly spread through Eurasia. It beggars belief to think that the Homeric-era Greeks had these beverages and kept them to themselves.