Interesting article, but the concept of 'drowning one's sorrows in a cup of wine' in relation to 'the wine-dark sea' is the kind of thing a poet would come up w

Interesting article, but the concept of 'drowning one's sorrows in a cup of wine' in relation to 'the wine-dark sea' is the kind of thing a poet would come up with. The texts seem to bear this out: > "And now have I put in here, as thou seest, with ship and crew, while sailing over the wine-dark sea to men of strange speech, on my way to Temese for copper..." > "Nay, if thou wilt, go and ask the old warrior Laertes, who, they say, comes no more to the city, but afar in the fields suffers woes attended by an aged woman as his handmaid, who sets before him food and drink, after weariness has laid hold of his limbs, as he creeps along the slope of his vineyard plot..." > "What feast, what throng is this? What need hast thou of it? Is it a drinking bout, or a wedding feast?" https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D178 https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext... It could just be a literary device used to invoke the effects of alcohol in the context of setting sail on an ocean, on a dangerous journey from which the voyager may not return.